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

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M.1097
Man in an armchair, reading a newspaper; v: Heads and figures

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1886
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler X6
Medium: pen, black ink and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper, printed heading 'HOGARTH CLUB,/ 27 ALBEMARLE STREET, W.', watermark 'JOYNSON SUPERFINE'
Size: 7 1/16 x 9" (180 x 229 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: draft of letter from Whistler
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Man in an armchair, reading a newspaper; v: Heads and figures

Man in an armchair, reading a newspaper (side 2); Heads and figures (side 4) dates from the spring or summer ot 1886. Man in an armchair, reading a newspaper is on the verso of a letter draft from Whistler, and Heads and figures on the verso of a short list of pictures and patrons. 1 The sketches are not related to the letter or list.

Man in an armchair, reading a newspaper, Glasgow University Library
Man in an armchair, reading a newspaper, Glasgow University Library

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1097).

Notes:

1: Whistler to the [Committee of the Hoboken Etching Club], [May/December 1886], GUW #07432.

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