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

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M.1104
Colour scheme for a lavatory

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1886/1887
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler LB9, pp. 21/22
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 5 15/16 x 4" (151 x 112-14 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Lavatory ./ Back bedroom / walls. / Skirting board.', and, in unknown hand, '5' and '6'

Colour scheme for a lavatory

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1104) as 'Colour scheme for a lavatory'.

Books on Whistler

  • Bendix, Deanna Marohn, Diabolical Designs: Paintings, Interiors, and Exhibitions of James McNeill Whistler, Washington and London, 1995, p. 171.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Andreeva, Galina, and Margaret F. MacDonald, Whistler and Russia, State Tretyakow Gallery, Moscow, 2006, pp. 100, 187 (cat. no. 109), repr. p. 100.

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, 2003-2004. GUW #03634.
  • University of Glasgow University Collections Website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/324457.

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