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

Technique

Sketches of the journey to Alsace, photograph, Library of Congress
Sketches of the journey to Alsace, photograph, Library of Congress

Lively pen drawings are scattered through the letter. The ink shows through a little from the verso.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret