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

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M.0499
Study for 'Portrait of Miss May Alexander'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1874
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1958-2-8-3
Medium: pencil and grey wash
Support: cream paper, laid down
Size: 5 x 2 9/16" (127 x 65-68 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Study for 'Portrait of Miss May Alexander'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 499) as "Study for 'Portrait of Miss May Alexander' ".
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (oil, cat. no. 127).

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