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

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M.0599
Bottle

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1907.179
Medium: pencil, pen, black ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 7 15/16 x 5 3/8" (202 x 137 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: '8' in unknown hand

Bottle

Description

Bottle, Freer Gallery of Art
Bottle, Freer Gallery of Art

The Thompson catalogue described this as 'Pair of Bottles, of depressed globular form, with short neck. Vases, implements, and leaves on a translucent ground of pale blue; ornamented with stemless hawthorn. On the neck a projecting rim with ornamental band; above stemless hawthorn. Height, 7 ½ inches.' 1

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] , p. 3 (cat. no. 8) repr. pl. 3.

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret