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

 

M.0619
Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Accession Number: 25-32f
Medium: pen, dark brown ink and wash over pencil
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 8 1/2 x 6 7/16" (216 x 163 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: none

Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck

Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck dates from 1876/1878. It is an illustration for a catalogue of the collection of Henry Thompson (1820-1894), published in 1878. 1 The small butterfly was added in 1893.

Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck, Glasgow Museums
Vase with slightly bulging body and expanding neck, Glasgow Museums

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 619).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 17th March 2021 by Margaret