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

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                Designs for an Album for Queen Victoria, Sketchbook, p. 35, The Hunterian
Designs for an Album for Queen Victoria, Sketchbook, p. 35, The Hunterian

The Sketchbook includes notes dating from 1886 to 1887, such as the draft of a letter to Henry Du Pré Labouchere (1831-1912), 21 August 1886 (published in Truth, 2 September 1886), and one to Alexander Johnston Cassatt (1839-1906) regarding Arrangement in Black, No. 8: Portrait of Mrs Cassatt [YMSM 250]. The drawings mainly date from 1887. One, reproduced above, is a design for an album to be presented to Queen Victoria (1819-1901) and is inscribed '1887'.

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1145).

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