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

 

M.0632
Plate, Bowl with a cover surmounted by a cup-shaped knob, Globular-shaped Bottle with long neck and Eight-sided Bowl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY.
Accession Number: 69.158
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: cream Japan paper laid down on card
Size: 7 11/16 x 6 11/16" (195 x 170 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Plate, Bowl with a cover surmounted by a cup-shaped knob, Globular-shaped Bottle with long neck and Eight-sided Bowl

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 632) as 'Plate, Bowl with a cover surmounted by a cup-shaped knob, Globular-shaped Bottle with long neck and Eight-sided Bowl'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Thompson, Sir Henry, A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson. Illustrated ... from Drawings by James Whistler ... and Sir Henry Thompson, London, 1878, final design (cat. nos 239, 246, 203, 306) repr. pl. XVIII.

Catalogues 1855-1905

SALE:

  • 29 preliminary drawings, 'sketches of blue and white vases, in the collection of Sir H. Thompson' were sold at Christie's, London, 7 February 1879 (lot 534).

Last updated: 12th April 2021 by Margaret