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

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Designs for RBA notepaper

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler M99
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream laid paper, embossed heading of an owl and 'MAGAZINE OF ART/ La Belle Sauvage,/ Ludgate Hill,/ London, E.C. ..188 ..', watermark 'JOYNSON/ SUPERFINE', f.s.
Size: 8 1/6 x 9 7/8" (205 x 253 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'RBA' twice by Whistler, letter from M. H. Spielmann to Whistler

Designs for RBA notepaper

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
  • 1955: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret