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

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M.1421
Cameo

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1894/1898
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: paper
Size: unknown, facsimile 68 x 54 mm (2 5/8 x 2 1/8"), the image, 23 mm diameter (7/8")
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown

Cameo

Technique

Cameo, Pennell 1908, vol. 2, repr. f.p. 152
Cameo, Pennell 1908, vol. 2, repr. f.p. 152

It was drawn, according to Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), on the verso of a list of lithographs, and was according to George Charles Williamson (1858-1942), 'the 'size of a sheet of notepaper'. 1

Notes:

1: T. R. Way to Dr George C. Williamson, GUL Whistler MS W143, Revillon 1955 W/2; Williamson to C. L. Freer, 10 June 1915, Freer Gallery Archives.

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