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

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M.0286
Sketches of the journey to Alsace

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: paper, letter
Size: unknown (photographs 8 x 10 3/8" (205 x 264 mm), and 8 1/8 x 5 3/4" (208 x 147 mm)
Signature: unknown
Inscription: excerpt from a letter, starting 'how we then set off, with nothing but a blouse on our backs -'
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Sketches of the journey to Alsace

Provenance

The letter, sent to Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908), has not been located; part of it survives in a manuscript copy in Glasgow University Library and a photograph of part is in the Pennell Collection in the Library of Congress. 1

Notes:

1: GUW #01912.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret