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

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M.1198
A long dress with a flounced hem

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler W1111
Medium: pencil
Support: cream laid paper, watermark 'LANGLEY/FINE TUB-SIZED', f.s.
Size: 10 x 8" (254 x 203 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: draft letter from Whistler to E. H. Yates

A long dress with a flounced hem

A long dress with a flounced hem dates from December 1888. It was drawn on a draft of an unrelated letter from Whistler to Edmund Hodgson Yates (1831-1894) of The World on 18 December 1888. 1

A long dress with a flounced hem, Glasgow University Library
A long dress with a flounced hem, Glasgow University Library

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1198).

Notes:

1: GUW #07121.

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