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

 

M.0789
Door

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen, ink and wash
Support: probably paper
Size: unknown, photograph 5 3/8 x 3" (137 x 90 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Door

Provenance

  • 1955/1957: sold by Alister Mathews (1907-1985), art dealer, Bournemouth, to a private collector.

No earlier provenance is known. However, it is possible that it was acquired from Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958).

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 10th February 2021 by Margaret