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

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M.1046
r.: Grey note - Mouth of the Thames; v.: Caricature of a man in a cocked hat

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession Number: 23.251
Medium: r.: watercolour and opaque watercolour; v.: graphite pencil
Support: r.: brown wove paper; v.: cream paper, laid down on card
Size: 5 x 8 7/16" (127 x 215 mm)
Signature: r.: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Grey note – Mouth of Thames', and, in another hand, 'by J. McNeill Whistler/ owner Walter Gay/ 73 rue Amère [illegible]'

r.: Grey note - Mouth of the Thames; v.: Caricature of a man in a cocked hat

Technique

r.: Grey note – Mouth of the Thames, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
r.: Grey note – Mouth of the Thames, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1046).

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