Southend: The Pleasure Yacht dates from 1883/1884.
Southend: The Pleasure Yacht, Freer Gallery of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 891).
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
See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.
Details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 891).
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.