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

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M.1164
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

Composition

Designs for RBA notepaper, Glasgow University Library
Designs for RBA notepaper, Glasgow University Library

The letter was written on two sides of the paper, the sketches underneath. Whistler had designed a lion for the notepaper of the Royal Society of British Artists (see Crowned lion [M.1133] et seq.) and this may represent designs for a monogram on the flap of envelopes for the RBA. They do not seem to have been adopted.

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