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

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Beatrice Whistler looking at her birds

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46196
Medium: lithographic crayon
Support: dark cream thin, transparent lithographic transfer paper
Size: 9 1/8 x 6 1/16" (231 x 154 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'col collé' in an unknown hand; v.: 'Mrs. J. McNeill Whistler looking at her birds at the Rue du Bac, Paris/ Drawing by Whistler, intended for a lithograph', by Harold Wright
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Beatrice Whistler looking at her birds

Technique

Beatrice Whistler looking at her birds, The Hunterian
Beatrice Whistler looking at her birds, The Hunterian

This was intended as a lithograph but never completed or transferred to a lithographic stone for printing.

Conservation History

This is a sheet of papier végétal paper, obtained from the Paris printer Lemercier & Cie. The drawing is on the gummed side, ready for transfer to a lithographic stone. 1

Notes:

1: Spink 1998 [more], vol. 1 (cat. no. XII), pp. 509-11.

Last updated: 8th December 2020 by Margaret