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

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M.1477
Cathedral Close, Canterbury

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 5 1/8 x 3 1/2" (130 x 89 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Cathedral Close, Canterbury' by Harold Wright

Cathedral Close, Canterbury

Technique

Cathedral Close, Canterbury, private collection
Cathedral Close, Canterbury, private collection

Drawn with a fine nib pen and brown ink, with broken outlines, the shapes of windows and door filled in with patches of shading.

Last updated: 18th June 2021 by Margaret