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

 

M.1062
Mother and child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1886
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46103
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white paper laid down on card
Size: 6 1/8 x 3 7/8" (155 x 97 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Whistler' by the artist; 'Mother and Child', probably by Beatrice Whistler

Mother and child

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1062) as 'Mother and child'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Probably 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Second Series, Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1886 (cat. no. 69) as 'Mother and child'.
  • Probably Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 175) 'Croquis.'

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 8th December 2020 by Margaret