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

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M.0703
Framed etchings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 1/15/4
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, watermark 'JOYNSON/SUPERFINE', embossed heading of Michelangelo's head and 'ARTS CLUB,/ HANOVER SQUARE./W.' , f.s.
Size: 7 1/8 x 8 7/8" (181 x 225 mm)
Signature: letter signed 'J A McN. Whistler'
Inscription: 'Window mount.' etc, in letter, see under Date

Framed etchings

Framed etchings were drawn in a letter from Whistler to Alfred Chapman (1839-1917) dated 9 August 1878, the relevant section reading:

You are quite right about the frames - have them black - narrow - with a thin flat of gold - fine large white margin - the etching rather high (you will notice how I have mounted them myself) and the window mount cut close up to the plate itself - showing no margin of the etching paper -

like this [drawing, inscribed:] Window mount.

[written under drawing:] Frame -

not like this. [drawing, inscribed:] Window mount -

[written under drawing:] Frame' 1

Framed etchings, Library of Congress
Framed etchings, Library of Congress

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 703).

Notes:

1: GUW #07966.

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