The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
YMSM 005
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'
Date
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water' dates from 1855.
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water', watercolour, Private collection
Originally thought to have been a lost oil, it has now been located, and is a watercolour. 1
Images
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water', watercolour, Private collection
Subject
Titles
'Copy after Turner' (1980, YMSM). 2
See the watercolour Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water' m0176.
Technique
Technique
Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water', Private collection
This is a watercolour, not an oil painting.
History
Provenance
See Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water' m0176.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 5) as 'Copy after Turner'.
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 176) as 'Copy after Turner's "Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water" '.
Notes:
1: MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 176) as Copy after Turner's 'Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steam-boats of shoal water'.
2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 5), wrongly catalogued as an oil.