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

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M.1435
Two women's heads

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler C101
Medium: pencil, pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream wove paper, embossed heading 'CHELSEA ARTS CLUB,/ l8l, KINGS ROAD, S. W.', watermark of a crown over 'Papyru[s]'
Size: 6 15/16 x 4 1/2" (176 x 115 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Two women's heads

Two women's heads drawn on a letter from Thomas Stirling Lee (1856-1916), Honorary Secretary of the Chelsea Arts Club, to Whistler, dated 13 August 1895. 1 The letter is not related to the sketches.

Two women's heads, Glasgow University Library
Two women's heads, Glasgow University Library

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1435).

Notes:

1: GUW #00600.

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