Study of a figure at the water’s edge carrying a basket or fish

This sketch reflects the fashion for Japanese art current in the 1870s and particularly as adopted by Whistler, whose work Wyllie would have known. The subject, however, is probably a French fisherwoman.

Object Details

ID: PAD0461
Collection: Fine art
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wyllie, William Lionel
Date made: Probably late 1860-70s
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: 88 mm x 124 mm