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

 

M.1103
Design for mouldings for Messrs Dowdeswell

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1886
Collection: Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Rare Books and Manuscripts Division
Medium: pen, black ink, pencil and watercolour
Support: grey lined, cream wove paper
Size: 3 11/16 x 7 1/4" (94 x 184 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: [p. 2] 'Top. / [p. 3] 'Top.'

Design for mouldings for Messrs Dowdeswell

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1103) as 'Design for mouldings for Messrs Dowdeswell'.

Books on Whistler

  • Bendix, Deanna Marohn, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, Washington and London, 1995, repr. p. 237.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004. GUW #08713.

Last updated: 23rd February 2021 by Margaret