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

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M.0623
Square Canister with long neck

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.172
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: cream Japan paper, laid down on card
Size: 7 5/16 x 5 3/8" (186 x 137 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Square Canister with long neck

Square Canister with long neck dates from 1876/1878. It is a preliminary study for an illustration in a catalogue of the collection of Henry Thompson (1820-1894), published in 1878. 1

Square Canister with long neck, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Square Canister with long neck, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 623).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret