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

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M.1165
House with a tower

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler R206-09
Medium: pencil
Support: cream blue-lined laid paper, watermark of a shield bearing three flowers, two above and one below an inverted 'V'
Size: 12 7/8 x 8" (327 x 203 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: draft of letter from Whistler to the Royal Society of British Artusts, sheet numbered '3'

House with a tower

House with a tower was drawn on the verso of the draft of a letter from Whistler (written by Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935)), to the Royal Society of British Artusts, between 4 October and 1 November 1887. 1

House with a tower, Glasgow University Library
House with a tower, Glasgow University Library

The sketch is not related to the letter.

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1165).

Notes:

1: GUW #05313.

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