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

 

M.1445
Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler LB3/37
Medium: r.: pen, black ink and pencil; v.: pen and black ink
Support: cream card
Size: 3 7/16 x 4 1/2" (88 x 114 mm)
Signature: letter signed 'Pretty isn't it?' with butterfly
Inscription: letter from Whistler to M. B. Huish; inscribed in unknown hand, '111'

Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1445) as 'Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 180, 187 (cat. no. 115), repr. p. 180.

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 #02974.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret