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

 

M.0356.
Rose and Silver

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881, 1886/1888
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46026
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 11 x 5 9/16" (280 x 141 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'No. 40y' and 'No 37y' in unknown hands

Rose and Silver

Technique

Rose and Silver, The Hunterian
Rose and Silver, The Hunterian

Although it was suggested that Rose and Silver dates from the late 1860s, it was signed later, around 1880/1881, and probably reworked for exhibition in the mid- to late-1880s. 1

Notes:

1: See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 342).

Last updated: 3rd June 2021 by Margaret