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

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 703) as 'Framed etchings'.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2005. GUW #07966.

Other

  • Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.

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