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

 

M.0636
Bottle of compressed globular form

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Accession Number: 25-32g
Medium: pencil, pen, dark brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 7 x 5" (177 x 127 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: none

Bottle of compressed globular form

Bottle of compressed globular form dates from 1876/1878; the second butterfly was added in 1893.

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

Bottle of compressed globular form, Glasgow Museums
Bottle of compressed globular form, Glasgow Museums

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no60).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret