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

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M.0650
Oviform Vase and cover

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Accession Number: 69.159
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: cream Japan paper, laid down on card
Size: 7 3/16 x 5 1/4" (183 x 134 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Oviform Vase and cover

Oviform Vase and cover dates from 1876/1878.

Oviform Vase and cover, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Oviform Vase and cover, 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, but it was not used. 1

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 650).

Notes:

1: Thompson 1878 [more] .

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