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

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M.0546
Mrs Leyland: A recollection

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873/1875
Collection: Whereabouts unknown, possibly destroyed
Accession Number: none
Medium: unknown
Support: unknown
Size: 4 1/8 x 2 3/8" (105 x 61 mm)
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Mrs Leyland: A recollection

Technique

The size is estimated from traces left in an album that had belonged to Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890). 1

Conservation History

The drawing, stuck into an album by Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890), was removed by Whistler. Howell wrote under the drawing, 'Mrs. Leland. [sic] A recollection'. 2

Notes:

1: Album, Glasgow University Library, Special Collections, MS Whistler LB 11-12.

2: Ibid.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret