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

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M.0659
Designs for wall decorations: r.: Designs for 2 Lindsey Row; r. and v.: Whistler's House, 2 Lindsey Row

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876/1878
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46072
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, watermark 'JENNER & KNEWSTUBS/ CHARTA PERFECTA', with F. R. Leyland's embossed monogram 'FRL'
Size: 8 7/8 x 7 1/16" (225 x 180 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'Leyland's House, Princes Gate', 'Decorations for Lindsay Row House'; v.: 'at Lindsay Row', and 'Lindsay Row' in H. Wright's hand

Designs for wall decorations: r.: Designs for 2 Lindsey Row; r. and v.: Whistler's House, 2 Lindsey Row

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 659) as 'Designs for wall decorations: r.: Designs for 2 Lindsey Row; r. and v.: Whistler's House, 2 Lindsey Row'.

Books on Whistler

  • Merrill, Linda, The Peacock Room. A Cultural Biography, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 178-84, staircase at 49 Princes Gate repr. p. 178, fig. 4.29.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 139, 224.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 122-23.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 10th December 2020 by Margaret