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

 

Two sketches

Two sketches dates from 1878 or 1879. It was drawn on lithographic transfer paper similar to Whistler's first (and unsuccessful) transfer lithograph, Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 c013. The printer Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) at first dated the latter as 1878 but later claimed that Whistler's early transfer lithographs all dated from 1879. 1


                Two sketches, Collection of Laurence N. Stranger
Two sketches, Collection of Laurence N. Stranger

The drawings are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 677), but had not been located at that time. This entry has been revised and corrected.

Notes:

1: Way 1905 [more] (cat. no. 132); Way 1912 [more] , pp. 20-21.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret