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

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M.0308
Design for a picture frame

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Lucas Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
Accession Number: n/a
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: white laid paper
Size: 8 1/4 x 10 5/16" (210 x 262 mm)
Signature: 'Jim Whistler' [signature on letter]
Inscription: [letter]

Design for a picture frame

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 308) as 'Design for a picture frame'.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow. (GUW #09187).

Unpublished

  • Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret