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

 

M.0667
r.: Two sketches of Nellie Farren; v.: Studies of two actors or actresses, one playing a banjo

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.86
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 5 3/8 x 4 7/16" (137 x 113 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: 'CONNIE GILCHRIST? BY WHISTLER' and '#2' in unknown hands

r.: Two sketches of Nellie Farren; v.: Studies of two actors or actresses, one playing a banjo

Conservation History

The sheet was torn by the artist and intended for destruction, but retrieved and repaired by Thomas Way

On 8 July 1912 his son Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) told Dr Williamson that 'several which belong to my father are very dilapidated having been torn across by Whistler'. 1

Notes:

1: Glasgow University Library, Whistler MS W143; Revillon 1955 W2.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret