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

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Heads in profile; (b) Candle and bottle

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1845/1847
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Special Collections, Whistler 161
Medium: pen, brown ink and pencil
Support: off-white wove paper, in book: Ivanov, Ardalion Vasil'evich, 'Russkaya Grammatika', St Petersburg 1845
Size: boards 8 1/4 x 5 3/8"; paper 8 1/8 x 5 1/4" (boards 210 x 136; paper 206 x 136 mm)
Signature: 'J. A.Whistler'
Inscription: 'Whistler I / Bxacnuyrs I'
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Heads in profile; (b) Candle and bottle

The drawings (a) Heads in profile; (b) Candle and bottle date from 1845/1847, when Whistler was in Russia.

(a) Heads in profile; (b) Candle and bottle, Glasgow University Library
(a) Heads in profile; (b) Candle and bottle, Glasgow University Library

They are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat no. 11).

Last updated: 12th December 2018 by Margaret