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

 

M.0914
On the Mersey

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1885
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 17.97.4
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 8 1/2 x 4 7/8" (215 x 123 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

On the Mersey

Provenance

  • Date unknown: with W. Macbeth, New York dealer.
  • 1913: with Harry Brisbane Dick (1855-1916) , according to A. E. Gallatin;
  • 1917: bought through Frederick Keppel (1845-1912) , New York dealer, by the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The earlier provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

No exhibition is known in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 18th February 2021 by Margaret