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

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

Coombe Farm, Norbiton, Kingston on Thames, which belonged to Janey Sevilla Campbell (Lady Archibald Campbell) (ca 1846-d.1923) and Archibald Campbell (1846-1913).

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