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

 

M.0578
Designs for staircase for 49 Princes Gate

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1958-2-8-18
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white laid paper, watermark '[WHA]TMAN', laid down on paper
Size: 4 13/16 x 7 3/4" (122 x 197 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: '49 Princes Gate' unknown hand

Designs for staircase for 49 Princes Gate

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 578) as 'Designs for staircase for 49 Princes Gate'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (panels, cat. no. 176).

Books on Whistler

  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 179, repr. fig. 4.31.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, repr. f.p.104 as 'Sketch of Stairway at Leyland's House'.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret