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

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M.0705
Sketch of 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 3/20/1
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream laid paper, embossed heading 'THE WHITE HOUSE,/ CHELSEA EMBANKMENT', partial watermark 'ORIGINA/ TURKEY M/ KENT', f.s.
Size: 7 5/8 x 6 1/16" (194 x 154 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: draft letter to J. J. Tissot

Sketch of 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 705) as "Sketch of 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket' ".

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2005. GUW #10748..

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