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

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M.0634
Large Bowl and Cover

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Accession Number: 25-32j
Medium: pencil, pen, dark brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 7 1/4 x 5 1/16" (185 x 129 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: none

Large Bowl and Cover

Large Bowl and Cover dates from 1876/1878; the second butterfly was added in 1893.

It is an illustration for a catalogue of the collection of Henry Thompson (1820-1894), published in 1878. 1

Large Bowl and Cover, Glasgow Museums
Large Bowl and Cover, Glasgow Museums

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 634).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 16th March 2021 by Margaret