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

 

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

Description

A faint sketch of a balcony or shrine high up on a wall, next to a door or arched window.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret