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

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M.0631
Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.415
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 8 3/4 x 7" (222 x 179 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish

Composition

Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish, Freer Gallery of Art
Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish, Freer Gallery of Art
Square canister, K'ang-hsi period, Chinese : Fitzwilliam Museum
Square canister, K'ang-hsi period, Chinese : Fitzwilliam Museum

A similar canister, possibly that painted by Whistler, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Saucer-shaped Dish, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Saucer-shaped Dish, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

It is an illustration for Plate XVII in Thompson 1878 [more] . There are two preliminary studies, Saucer-shaped Dish [M.0629] and Square Canister with square neck, and saucer-shaped Dish [M.0630].

Last updated: 17th March 2021 by Margaret