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

 

M.0488
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (a) chairs and door, plates on wall; (b) vase in arched recess

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873/1874
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1958, 0208.3-36
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white paper, mourning edge, printed monogram 'RA'
Size: 9 x 6 15/16" (229 x 177 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: '15.4' possibly by Whistler, and 'Dining Room, Aubrey House' in an unknown hand

Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (a) chairs and door, plates on wall; (b) vase in arched recess

Technique

Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (b) vase in arched recess, British Museum
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (b) vase in arched recess, British Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 488).

Conservation History

The drawings were put into an album.

Last updated: 22nd February 2021 by Margaret