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

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M.1146
Ship

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46116
Medium: pencil, pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white wove paper, printed heading 'THE FINE ART SOCIETY,/(LIMD.)/148, NEW BOND ST.W.', inlaid in album, f.12; cloth-bound album, with leather spine, with sketches inlaid into card, with butterfly signature inlaid on f.1
Size: 6 7/8 x 4 7/16" (175 x 112 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: list of 470 impressions of 14 prints etc.; v.: 'Nocturne -30- / Steps - 30- / Sunset -20 / Winter -20 / [illeg.]-30 // 130 // Dyer-- 10- [Lagoon] -4- Vine-6'
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Ship

Ship probably dates from 1887. It is mounted in an album with other drawings acquired by Whistler's son Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935).

Ship, The Hunterian
Ship, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1146).

Last updated: 8th December 2020 by Margaret