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

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M.0019
Head of a woman

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1847/1848
Collection: Private Collection, possibly destroyed
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: beige wove paper
Size: 17 7/16 x 11 15/16" (443 x 304 mm)
Signature: 'James Whistler'
Inscription: '46' or '1/6' and '31 / B[urmereiyez?] / B[uarepr?]', and 'YHCTep' (translation: 'Whistler'), in various hands

Head of a woman

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 19) as 'Head of a woman'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, repr. p. 20.

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