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

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                    Nocturne: Chelsea, The Hunterian
Nocturne: Chelsea, The Hunterian

A public house (tavern) in Chelsea, London. It was drawn from memory, according to Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), who himself made a memory sketch of the oil painting that Whistler developed from the drawing. 1

Notes:

1: Way 1912 [more] , pp. 67-68, repr. f.p. 68.

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