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

Colour scheme for a lavatory dates from 1886/1887.

Colour scheme for a lavatory, Glasgow University Library
Colour scheme for a lavatory, Glasgow University Library

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1104).

Last updated: 27th February 2021 by Margaret