Composition

Sketch for a fan, Freer Gallery of Art

Dancing girl, on a fan, Private Collection

This design was copied by Whistler on to one spoke of a fan; see Dancing girl, on a fan [M.1423].

Technique

The design was drawn in pencil, and worked over delicately in light red wash with a fine brush.

See technical details in Whistler in Watercolour, Freer|Sackler, Washington, 2019, website.

Conservation History

The paper is browned, with a horizontal grain. It has a very uneven edge at left suggesting it was torn from a notebook.