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

 

M.0143
Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil, crayon, gouache, pen and black ink
Support: brown paper
Size: 17 3/8 x 11 5/16" (441 x 288 mm)
Signature: 'J A Whistler'
Inscription: none

Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza'

Composition

Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza', private collection
Copy after Duffield Harding's 'Vicenza', private collection

A copy of 'Vicenza, North Italy' by James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), which was published in Sketches at Home and Abroad (London, 1836, frontispiece). Harding's original monochrome drawing dates from 1834 and is in Tate Britain. 1

Technique

The original was monochrome, but Whistler may have had access to a hand-coloured impression.

Conservation History

It has darkened considerably.

Notes:

1: Graphite and gouache on paper, 375 x 264 mm, Acc. No. T00997, repr. Tate website.

Last updated: 14th March 2021 by Margaret