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

 

M.0848
r. and v.: Trellis

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46085
Medium: pen, black ink and watercolour
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 5 x 2 7/8" (178 x 254 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'The trellis work must in this arrangement / be pale primrose color- anything at all / of an orange tendency would make the whole hot - The doors and roofing will give the orange - '

r. and v.: Trellis

r. and v.: Trellis dates from early 1881. Whistler's plans for the trellis were acknowledged by Janey Sevilla Campbell (Lady Archibald Campbell) (ca 1846-d.1923) in May 1881. 1

r. Trellis, The Hunterian
r. Trellis, The Hunterian

The drawings are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 848).

Notes:

1: [May 1881], GUW #00513.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret