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

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YMSM 270
St Ives, The Nets on the Hill

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: unknown
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown

St Ives, The Nets on the Hill

Titles

Only one title is known:

  • 'St Ives – the nets on the hill' (1901/1902, Whistler). 1
  • 'St Ives, The Nets on the Hill' (1980, YMSM). 2

The punctuation was altered in 1980 to conform with other titles.

Description

Presumably a landscape, with fishing nets drying, on poles and lines, on a hill above the town.

Site

St Ives, a fishing village in Cornwall, south-wets England.

Notes:

1: GUW #13662.

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 270).

Last updated: 29th March 2019 by Margaret