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

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M.1137
Lady wearing a dress with a bustle

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler R145
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream laid paper, watermark 'ORIGINAL/ TURKEY MILL/KENT', embossed heading 'BEEFSTEAK CLUB'
Size: 8 x 6" (202 x 152 mm)
Signature: letter signed 'J McN Whistler'
Inscription: draft letter to W. M. Rossetti

Lady wearing a dress with a bustle

Lady wearing a dress with a bustle was drawn on the draft of a letter from Whistler to William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919), on 18 July 1887. 1 The drawing is not related to the letter.

Lady wearing a dress with a bustle, Glasgow University Library
Lady wearing a dress with a bustle, Glasgow University Library

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1137).

Notes:

1: GUW #05249; Rossetti replied on 21 July 1887 (GUW #05250).

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