"J. M. Whistler is here again with his nocturnes."
Scotsman.
18.—NOCTURNE.
Blue and Silver—Chelsea.
Lent by W. C. Alexander, Esq.
"Mr. Whistler confines himself to two small canvases of the nocturne kind. One is covered with smudgy blue and the other with dirty black."
Saturday Review.
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"A reputation, for a time, imperilled by original absurdity"—F. Wedmore, "Academy."
"I think Mr. Wedmore takes the Nocturnes and Arrangements too seriously. They are merely first beginnings of pictures, differing from ordinary first beginnings in having no composition. The great originality was in venturing to exhibit them."