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

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M.0611
Tall Vase, with Bulging Body

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Accession Number: 25-32b
Medium: pencil, pen, dark brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 8 5/16 x 6 3/8" (212 x 162 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: none

Tall Vase, with Bulging Body

Tall Vase, with Bulging Body dates from 1876/1878. It is an illustration in a catalogue of the collection of Henry Thompson (1820-1894). 1

Tall Vase, with Bulging Body, Glasgow Museums
Tall Vase, with Bulging Body, Glasgow Museums

The small butterfly was added in 1893.

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 611).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 16th March 2021 by Margaret