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

 

r.: Two sketches of Nellie Farren; v.: Studies of two actors or actresses, one playing a banjo

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 667) as 'r.: Two sketches of Nellie Farren; v.: Studies of two actors or actresses, one playing a banjo'.

Books on Whistler

  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 21, repr. f.p. 20 as "Connie Gilchrist as `The Skipping Girl'."

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret