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

 

M.0646
Oviform Pot and cover

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.154
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: cream laid paper laid down on card
Size: 6 1/2 x 4 1/8" (165 x 105 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Oviform Pot and cover

Oviform Pot and cover dates from 1876/1878.

Oviform Pot and cover, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Oviform Pot and cover, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

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

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 646).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 12th April 2021 by Margaret