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

 

M.1582
Plan of a panel of pictures for the ISSPG

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Tate Archive, London
Accession Number: 72-45/295
Medium: pencil
Support: cream laid paper, watermark ‘Imperial Century’
Size: 227 x 176 mm (9 x 6 7/8")
Signature: letter signed ‘J. McN. Whistler’
Inscription: "Forbes’ sea piece // Oval / Cowan’s shop Nocturne / Oval // Phryne / Cigale"; '931' and '37' in unknown hands

Plan of a panel of pictures for the ISSPG

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1582) as 'Plan of a panel of pictures for the ISSPG'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (ref., cat. no. 490).

Websites

  • Tate Archive at archive.tate.org.
  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow. GUW #09988.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret