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

Technique

A lady reciting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A lady reciting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Lady at Dinner, sketchbook (p. 3), The Hunterian
Lady at Dinner, sketchbook (p. 3), The Hunterian

The paper and subject are similar to a drawing in Whistler's small Corsican Sketchbook [M.1666], reproduced above; the sheet may have been taken from a similar notebook.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1661).

Last updated: 14th February 2021 by Margaret