The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.0891
Southend: The Pleasure Yacht

Southend: The Pleasure Yacht

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.120
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream paper, laid down on card
Size: 10 x 7" (254 x 178 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Date

Southend: The Pleasure Yacht dates from 1883/1884.

Southend: The Pleasure Yacht, Freer Gallery of Art
Southend: The Pleasure Yacht, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 891).

Images

Southend: The Pleasure Yacht, Freer Gallery of Art
Southend: The Pleasure Yacht, Freer Gallery of Art

Subject

Site

Southend: The Pleasure Yacht, Freer Gallery of Art
Southend: The Pleasure Yacht, Freer Gallery of Art

Southend-on-Sea was a popular resort on the Essex coast, some 60 kilometers east of London, on the north side of the Thames Estuary. It was easily reached by rail on a day trip from London

Technique

Technique

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

History

Provenance

Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 891).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

By the terms of Freer's will the work cannot be lent to another venue.

Bibliography

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