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

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M.0720
Caricature of F. R. Leyland

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46079
Medium: pen and dark brown ink/black ink
Support: cream laid paper
Size: 6 7/8 x 4 3/8" (174 x 112 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'It occurs to "F. R. L. frill - that he will keep an eye on the assets of the White House.'

Caricature of F. R. Leyland

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 720) as 'Caricature of F. R. Leyland'.

Books on Whistler

  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 77-79.

Websites

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

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret