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

 

M.0836
r.: Sketch for the Selection and Arrangement of the First Venice Set; v.: 'The Dyer' and Shutters

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880
Collection: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown
Accession Number: 1947.D1.303
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 4 7/16 x 6 7/8" (111 x 175 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: 'Drawing by Whistler / HM' written by Howard Mansfield; collectors' marks of D. Kennedy and Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342, Lugt 1782)

r.: Sketch for the Selection and Arrangement of the First Venice Set; v.: 'The Dyer' and Shutters

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 836) as 'r.: Sketch for the Selection and Arrangement of the First Venice Set; v.: 'The Dyer' and Shutters'.

Books on Whistler

  • Bendix, Deanna Marohn, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, Washington and London, 1995, p. 219, repr. fig. 3.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, p. 43, repr. f.p. 42 as 'Page of memory notes of fourteen Venice etchings'.

Websites

  • Davison Art Center website at http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret