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

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M.1666
Sketchbook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46302
Medium: pen, pencil
Support: blue-squared, wove paper with gilt edge; notebook with cardboard cover, covered with paper having a printed flower pattern of white daisies with yellow centres, and green leaves, on a dark red background; inside cover, paper with white and purple trompe l'oeuil cube pattern; held closed by purple plaited band
Size: book 99 x 66 mm; paper 93 x 60 mm (book 3 7/8 x 2 5/8; paper 3 11/16 x 2 3/8")
Signature: inside cover and p. 11 signed with butterfly
Inscription: notes, draft letters and other texts
print

Sketchbook

Provenance

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

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret