Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.0738
The Cemetery

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Collection: Frick Collection, NY
Accession Number: 1915.3.39
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 8 x 11 7/8" (203 x 301 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'No 2 - 10 3/4' by Whistler; and '2' in an unknown hand

The Cemetery

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The Cemetery, The Frick Collection
The Cemetery, The Frick Collection

A view from the Fondamente Nuove in Venice, or from a boat, looking north to the cemetery island of San Michele. 1

Notes:

1: Grieve 2000 [more] , pp. 173-174, repr. pl. 225, view repr. pl. 226. MacDonald 2001 [more] , p. 42, repr. pl. 43, view repr. pl. 44.

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