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

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M.0009
Books, pens, cup and saucer

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1845/1847
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Special Collections, Whistler 166
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, in book, Charles de St Hilaire, 'Lectures francaise a l'usage des familles et des maisons d'Education en Russie', St Petersburg, 1841
Size: boards 7 13/16 x 4 3/8"; paper 7 5/8 x 4 1/8" (boards 189 x 112 mm, paper 186 x 105 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'german [illegible] f. Fahles' [or 'Fables'] [illegible]' in an unknown hand
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Books, pens, cup and saucer

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 9) as 'Books, pens, cup and saucer'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 20, 186 (cat. no. 102), repr. p. 20, as 'Books, Pens, Cup and Saucer'.

Websites

  • Glasgow University Library website.

Last updated: 8th February 2019 by Margaret