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

 

M.0605
Large Bowl and Cover

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Accession Number: 25-32d
Medium: pencil, brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 8 3/4" x 6 3/4" (222 x 172 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: none

Large Bowl and Cover

Large Bowl and Cover dates from 1876/1878. It is an illustration in a catalogue of the collection of Henry Thompson (1820-1894). 1

The small butterfly was added in 1893.

Large Bowl and Cover, Glasgow Museums
Large Bowl and Cover, Glasgow Museums

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 605).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 16th March 2021 by Margaret