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

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M.0934
Red and black

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883/1884
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.331
Medium: watercolour
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 9 3/16 x 5 1/8" (233 x 130 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Red and black

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Red and black, Fogg Art Museum
Red and black, Fogg Art Museum

Kate Munroe (née Lyster) (1848-1887) , 'a most fascinating and clever actress,' who starred in Les Cloches de Corneville and was said to have born two children to a royal father (Further Indiscretions, 'by a Woman of No Importance', New York, 1918, p. 162).

Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret