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

 

M.0630
Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.174
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: white wove paper laid down on card
Size: 9 1/8 x 7 7/8" (232 x 200 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish

Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish dates from 1876/1878.

It is a preliminary study for an illustration in a catalogue of the collection of Henry Thompson (1820-1894), published in 1878. 1

Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,
Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 630).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret