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

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M.1167
Design for a frame

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler G88
Medium: pencil
Support: cream laid paper, embossed heading 'Beefsteak Club,/ King William Street,/ Strand, W.C.', watermark of armoured head over scroll with 's&n'
Size: 7 1/2 x 7 7/8" (190-194 x 200 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: draft of a letter from Whistler to the Editor of 'The Globe'

Design for a frame

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1167) as 'Design for a frame'.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004, GUW #01722..

Other

  • Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence, Variations in Gold: The Stylistic Development of the Picture Frames used by James McNeill Whistlers, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret