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

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M.1563
Club on a cushion

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685415
Medium: pen, black ink and white paint
Support: yellow tracing paper tipped down on card
Size: 4 1/8 x 5" (105 x 128 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'size. measure from outside/ Tassels across.' and 'Top -'; v.: inscribed on card, in unknown hands, 'Heinemann/ [Monie?]/ 38090'
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Club on a cushion

Composition

Club on a cushion, Library of Congress
Club on a cushion, Library of Congress
A club on a cushion in Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, Glasgow University Library
A club on a cushion in Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, Glasgow University Library

This was drawn for publication in Whistler 1899 (F)[more]. A slightly more complicated version was actually published (see A club on a cushion [M.1564]) .

Technique

It was drawn with neat and detailed pen work on shiny tissue paper, which is now a yellowed beige in colour.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret