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

 

M.1661
A lady reciting

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Accession Number: 1962.17.84
Medium: pencil, pen, brown and black ink
Support: off-white blue-squared paper laid down
Size: 136 x 93 mm (5 3/8 x 3 11/16")
Signature: none
Inscription: 'A22003/ Whistler. A lady reciting, at Ajaccio (from Miss/ Birnie Philip's/ collection)' by Harold Wright

A lady reciting

Provenance

  • 1903: in the artist's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1957: bought by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd, London art dealers, 25 January, and sold on 17 May to Francis Falconer Madan (1886-1961) ;
  • 1961: bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum.

Exhibitions

None in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 14th February 2021 by Margaret