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

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M.1419
Sketch after a Greek terracotta figure

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46205
Medium: pencil
Support: cream card in leather-backed photograph album of 48 sides
Size: paper 6 1/8 x 5"; panel 3 ¾ x 2 3/4" (paper 155 x 127 mm; panel 95 x 70 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none
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Sketch after a Greek terracotta figure

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
  • 1958: bequeathed by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 3rd June 2021 by Margaret