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

 

M.1447
Designs for a flag for a lithograph exhibition

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler LB3 p. 39
Medium: pen, black ink and pencil
Support: cream card
Size: 3 7/16 x 4 1/2" (88 x 114 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: letter from Whistler to M. B. Huish; inscribed in unknown hand '27th Nov.'

Designs for a flag for a lithograph exhibition

Designs for a flag for a lithograph exhibition drawn on verso of a letter from Whistler in Lyme Regis to Marcus Bourne Huish (1843-1904) of the Fine Art Society on 27 November 1895. 1

Designs for a flag for a lithograph exhibition, Glasgow University Library
Designs for a flag for a lithograph exhibition, Glasgow University Library

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1447).

Notes:

1: [27 November 1895], GUW #02976.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret