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

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 636) as 'Bottle of compressed globular form'.

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 (cat. no. 204) repr. pl. XIX.

Catalogues 1855-1905

SALE:

  • Possibly Christie's, London, 7 February 1879 (lots 527-533).

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret