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

 

M.1583
Paintings at the ISSPG

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: May 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler NB2 (pp. 120-21)
Medium: pencil
Support: pale grey linen-weave wove paper
Size: 150 x 114 mm (5 7/8 x 4 1/2")
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: ‘for Catalogue – 1. “Blue and Silver - from Trouville”. 2. “Brown & Gold. Chelsea Rags - Nocturne” 3. Rose & Brown. La Cigale 4. Purple & Gold – “Phryne the Superbe!-Builder of temples.” – 5. “Violet & Rose – Carmen qui rit” 6. “Rose & Gold Little Miss Sophie” ’, and, in Miss R. B. Philip’s hand, ‘2nd. International exhibition?’

Paintings at the ISSPG

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1583) as 'Paintings at the ISSPG'.

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