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

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M.0221
A Woman in a tall bonnet and a man in a top hat

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1857
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: white paper
Size: 3 x 2 3/4" (76 x 69 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

A Woman in a tall bonnet and a man in a top hat

Technique

A Woman in a tall bonnet and a man in a top hat, Private Collection
A Woman in a tall bonnet and a man in a top hat, Private Collection

A quick sketch but with careful shading and some dark accents.

Conservation History

According to the owner, Whistler gave her some 'trivial sketches', which she put in an album he had brought from Paris, 'with my name in gold, stamped outside', possibly at Christmas 1858. 1 These may have been removed and framed later, because she lent 'A frame of ten early pencil sketches' to the Whistler Memorial exhibition in 1905 (cat. no. 207), and these were unmounted and dispersed at a later date

Notes:

1: Mrs Thynne to Pennell, 20 February 1907, Library of Congress.

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret