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

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M.0098
Cadet Colquitt's Mathematics notebook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46006
Medium: pencil, pen, brown and black ink, grey/black wash, blue and pink watercolour
Support: pale blue wove paper (224 sides) in half-leather-bound volume
Size: boards 9 5/8 x 7 7/8"; paper 9 3/8 x 7 13/16" (boards 245 x 200; paper 238 x 199 mm)
Signature: 'J A Whistler' and 'James A Whistler', repeated, on p. 59
Inscription: various

Cadet Colquitt's Mathematics notebook

Provenance

  • 1852: the album was signed on p. 1 by the then owner, Peyton H. Colquitt (1831-1863) .
  • By 1877: owned by J. McN. Whistler.
  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
  • 1958: bequeathed by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 98).

Last updated: 6th December 2020 by Margaret