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

 

M.0303
'The Woman in White'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Wadsworth, CT
Accession Number: 1925
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 9 x 8 7/8" (178 x 225 mm)
Signature: 'Jemmie Whistler' (on letter)
Inscription: 'Whistler's Extraordinary picture the WOMAN IN WHITE'

'The Woman in White'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 303) as " 'The Woman in White' ".

Books on Whistler

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., 'Joanna Hiffernan and James Whistler: an Artistic Partnership' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 15-31.
  • de Montfort, Patricia, ' “A Great Sensation”: Women in White in Late Victorian Literature and Popular Culture' in Margaret F. MacDonald (ed.), The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and Washington, 2020, pp. 147-156.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow. GUW #11977.

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret