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

 

M.0503
Design for a dress for Miss Cicely H. Alexander

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1872
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1958-2-8-34
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, watermark 'J ALLEN & SON / SUPER FINE', p. 2
Size: 7 3/8 x 9" (188 x 229 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: letter from A. M. Whistler, p. 2: '... The dress might have frills on the skirts and about it - and a fine little ruffle for the neck - or else lace - [drawing] Also it might be looped up from time to time with bows of pale yellow ribbon - ...'

Design for a dress for Miss Cicely H. Alexander

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 503) as 'Design for a dress for Miss Cicely H. Alexander'.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 129).

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow. GUW #07571

Last updated: 15th February 2021 by Margaret