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

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Red and brown - Hoxton

Technique

The Illustrated London News expressed 'unfeigned admiration' for 'Street Scene, Hoxton' [sic], and enquired how Whistler achieved 'that marvellous transparency of colour which he can throw at times into his sea and air.' 1

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

Notes:

1: Anon., 'The Whistler Exhibition', Illustrated London News, London, 15 May 1886, p. 14.

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