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

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M.1294
Mother and child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1891/1893
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46158
Medium: lithographic crayon
Support: cream wove lithographic paper bonded to wove paper
Size: 9 5/8 x 7 3/8-7 5/8" (244 x 188-194 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Mother and child

Technique

Mother and child, The Hunterian
Mother and child, The Hunterian

This is a drawing in lithographic crayon with scraping and traces of stumping on papier viennoise lithographic transfer paper coated with a fine-grained lead-white ground. 1

It relates to Whistler's lithographic series, Mother and Child, No. 1 c051 et seq., which were probably drawn in 1891 and transferred and printed in 1895. The transfer, after so long a delay, was not successful. It may be that Whistler decided not to risk trying to transfer this drawing.

Conservation History

The paper and its lead-white ground are discoloured, and the sheet is torn at left.

Notes:

1: Spink 1998 [more] , vol. 1, p. 504, 'Untransferred Lithographic Drawings' (no. IV).

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret