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

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Globular Bottle with long thin neck, Cylindrical-shaped Pot with flat cover surmounted by a knob, and Shallow Bowl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.157
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: cream Japan paper laid down on card
Size: 7 3/8 x 5 7/8" (187 x 149 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
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Globular Bottle with long thin neck, Cylindrical-shaped Pot with flat cover surmounted by a knob, and Shallow Bowl

Globular Bottle with long thin neck, Cylindrical-shaped Pot with flat cover surmounted by a knob, and Shallow Bowl dates from 1876/1878.

It is a preliminary design for an illustration in a catalogue of the collection of Henry Thompson (1820-1894), published in 1878. 1

Globular Bottle with long thin neck, Cylindrical-shaped Pot with flat cover surmounted by a knob, and Shallow Bowl, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Globular Bottle with long thin neck, Cylindrical-shaped Pot with flat cover surmounted by a knob, and Shallow Bowl, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 643).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more].

Last updated: 12th April 2021 by Margaret