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

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M.0648
Beaker with expanding neck

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.155
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: cream paper laid down on card
Size: 5 11/16 x 4 5/16" (145 x 110 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Beaker with expanding neck

Beaker with expanding neck dates from 1876/1878.

Beaker with expanding neck, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Beaker with expanding neck, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

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

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 648).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

Last updated: 12th April 2021 by Margaret