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

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1097) as 'Man in an armchair, reading a newspaper (side 2); Heads and figures (side 4)'.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004. GUW #07432.

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