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

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M.1329
Designs for the catalogue 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 3
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, watermark '[CPL] Marchais', f.s.
Size: 12 3/16" x 16 5/8" (310 x 422 mm)
Signature: butterfly, and 'J McN Whistler' on letter
Inscription: r. and v.: letter, see SUBJECT; 'The Goupil Gallery' and dated, '1892', probably by D. C. Thomson; v.: stamped 'GOUPIL & COMPANY/ 7 March 1892'

Designs for the catalogue 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces'

Designs for the catalogue 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces' were drawn on a letter from Whistler to David Croal Thomson (1855-1930) dated 1 March 1892. 1

Designs for the catalogue 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces', Library of Congress
Designs for the catalogue 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces', Library of Congress
Designs for the catalogue 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces', Library of Congress
Designs for the catalogue 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces', Library of Congress

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1329).

Notes:

1: 1 March [1892], GUW #08359.

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