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

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M.0409
Study for 'Morning Glories'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1871/1873
Collection: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Accession Number: PD.71-1959
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 11 1/8 x 6 3/4" (282 x 171 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Study for 'Morning Glories'

Provenance

  • By 1903: possibly owned by Mrs Charles Julius Kino/Knowles (née Louisa Essinger) (b.1850, m.1874) , Kensington Gore;
  • 1940: deposited by her son, Guy John Fenton Kino or Knowles (1879-1959) , in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge;
  • 1959: bequeathed by Knowles to the Fitzwilliam Museum.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 409).

Exhibitions

No exhibitions have been identified in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret