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

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M.1697
Adam and Eve

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: The Hunterian
Accession Number: GLAHA 46308
Medium: pencil, pen, brown and dark brown ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 152 x 94-98 mm (6 x 3 11/16")
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: drafts of letters, one starting 'Napoleon and I …'
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Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve dates from early 1901. It is dated from the references (on the verso) to 'Bonapart's [sic] island', and Napoleon, Whistler having just returned from Napoleon's birthplace, Corsica.

Adam and Eve, The Hunterian
Adam and Eve, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1697).

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret