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

 

M.1666
Sketchbook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46302
Medium: pen, pencil
Support: blue-squared, wove paper with gilt edge; notebook with cardboard cover, covered with paper having a printed flower pattern of white daisies with yellow centres, and green leaves, on a dark red background; inside cover, paper with white and purple trompe l'oeuil cube pattern; held closed by purple plaited band
Size: book 99 x 66 mm; paper 93 x 60 mm (book 3 7/8 x 2 5/8; paper 3 11/16 x 2 3/8")
Signature: inside cover and p. 11 signed with butterfly
Inscription: notes, draft letters and other texts

Sketchbook

The sketchbook dates from the Spring of 1901, and most if not all the sketches were drawn in Ajaccio, the capital of Corsica, where Whistler stayed at the Hotel Schweizerhof (Boulevard Sylvestre Marcaggi), today the seat of the Bishop of Ajaccio.

Front cover, sketchbook, The Hunterian
Front cover, sketchbook, The Hunterian

The sketchbook is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1666).

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret