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

 

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 …'

Adam and Eve

Composition

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

This is one of several designs for a competition for an advertisement for Pear's soap. In this case Eve is tempting Adam with the apple (soap!) from the Tree of Knowledge. See also Eve [M.1698].

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1697).

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret