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

Site

Drawn probably in Ajaccio, Corsica.

Sitter

A lady reciting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A lady reciting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Unidentified. She appears also in Woman in profile left [M.1662].

Last updated: 14th February 2021 by Margaret