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

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M.1445
Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler LB3/37
Medium: r.: pen, black ink and pencil; v.: pen and black ink
Support: cream card
Size: 3 7/16 x 4 1/2" (88 x 114 mm)
Signature: letter signed 'Pretty isn't it?' with butterfly
Inscription: letter from Whistler to M. B. Huish; inscribed in unknown hand, '111'

Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society

Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society was drawn in a letter to from Whistler, then in Lyme Regis, to Marcus Bourne Huish (1843-1904) of The Fine Art Society in London, on 24 November 1895. 1

Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society, Glasgow University Library
Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society, Glasgow University Library

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1445).

Notes:

1: [24 November 1895], GUW #02974.

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