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

 

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

Sketchbook

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1666) as 'Sketchbook'.

Books, General

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Whistler's Mother's Cook Book, London, 1979, p. 51, repr.

Websites

  • The Hunterian, University of Glasgow website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret