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

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M.0019
Head of a woman

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1847/1848
Collection: Private Collection, possibly destroyed
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: beige wove paper
Size: 17 7/16 x 11 15/16" (443 x 304 mm)
Signature: 'James Whistler'
Inscription: '46' or '1/6' and '31 / B[urmereiyez?] / B[uarepr?]', and 'YHCTep' (translation: 'Whistler'), in various hands
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Head of a woman

Technique

This is probably a copy of a print or drawing, and may have been supervised or touched up by Whistler's tutor, Alexander Osipovich Koritsky (1818-1866).

Conservation History

Private information from family descendants suggests this drawing may have been destroyed.

Last updated: 18th June 2021 by Margaret