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

 

M.1538
Design for a monogram for the ISSPG

Artist: J. McN. Whistler and/or Joseph Pennell
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685413
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream card
Size: 6 1/8 x 6 5/8" (156 x 169 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'all right - Reduce to - 1/8 height - [illegible]' in unknown hands, and 'Mr Whistler's design/ for the Catalogue/ and Seal of Society/ return to J Pennell', by J. Pennell

Design for a monogram for the ISSPG

Technique

Design for a monogram for the ISSPG, Library of Congress
Design for a monogram for the ISSPG, Library of Congress
r.: Designs for monogram for ISSPG, Library Of Congress
r.: Designs for monogram for ISSPG, Library Of Congress

Although based on a design by Whistler this does not look so much like his work as do the other r.: Designs for monogram for ISSPG ; v.: Tracing of monogram for ISSPG [M.1537]. It may have been drawn by Joseph Pennell (1860-1926), based on Whistler's design.

Conservation History

There are two pin holes at top and bottom, and one at centre left.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret