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

 

The Retort

Composition


                    The Retort, The Hunterian
The Retort, The Hunterian

This is one of several designs for a competition for an advertisement for Pear's soap. See also Adam and Eve [M.1697] and Eve [M.1698].

Technique

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1700).

Conservation History

It is similar paper to Eve [M.1698] and Venus and Cupid [M.1699] and related to the same project.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret