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

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M.0964
Grey and Silver - The Beach - Holland

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884/1888
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream paper
Size: 4 1/4 x 7 7/8" (106 x 198 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Grey and Silver - The Beach - Holland

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Grey and Silver – The Beach – Holland, Private Collection
Grey and Silver – The Beach – Holland, Private Collection

A beach in the Netherlands, possibly Scheveningen. Whistler may have visited that busy fisging town on the recommendation of Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915). 1

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1: Heijbroek 1997 [more] , p. 115.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret