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

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M.0531
r.: The Dressmaker; v.: Figure study

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46058
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on card
Size: 11 x 7 1/8" (279 x 181 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

r.: The Dressmaker; v.: Figure study

r.: The Dressmaker; v.: Figure study date from about 1873; the signature was added a little later; the recto was shown at Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874 (cat. no. 11) as 'The Dressmaker'.

r.: The Dressmaker, The Hunterian
r.: The Dressmaker, The Hunterian

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 531).

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret