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

 

YMSM 317
Note in Green and Brown: Orlando at Coombe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46393
Medium: oil
Support: wood
Size: 14.8 x 9.0 cm (5 7/8 x 3 1/2")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none
Frame: Grau-style, ca 1892

Note in Green and Brown: Orlando at Coombe

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1958: bequeathed by Miss R. Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

  • 1886: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 24) as 'Note in Green and Brown: Orlando at Coombe'.

It was exhibited by Messrs Dowdeswell in 1886 (cat. no. 24) the price being estimated by Dowdeswell at £25, but increased to £30 by Whistler in a marked catalogue. 1

Notes:

1: Catalogues in Library of Congress and GUL ec 1886.

Last updated: 5th December 2020 by Margaret