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

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M.1131
Draft of Address to Queen Victoria

Artist: James McNeill Whistler and another
Date: 1887
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler V64
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2" (244 x 191 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'To the Queen's most excellent Majesty / The humble and dutiful Memorial of the undersigned in behalf of a Society of Your Majesty's faithful Subjects being Artists and Patrons and Well wishers of the Arts and Artist's [sic] of your Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain'

Draft of Address to Queen Victoria

Draft of Address to Queen Victoria dates from between May and July 1887. The actual Address to Queen Victoria (1819-1901) on the occasion of her Jubilee, of which this is a draft or sketch, was sent in July 1887. 1

Draft of Address to Queen Victoria, Glasgow University Library
Draft of Address to Queen Victoria, Glasgow University Library

This drawing is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1131) as 'Draft of Address to Queen Victoria'. This record has been revised.

Notes:

1: Society of British Artists to Queen Victoria, [6 July 1887], GUW #05969; receipt of the Address sent by H. Matthews on 20 July 1887, GUW #01835. See also [22/23 July 1887], GUW #05975.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret