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

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M.1482
Whistler raiding the Chelsea Arts Club

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler P323
Medium: pencil
Support: cream laid paper, yellow embossed heading '4, WHITEHALL COURT, / S.W.', partial watermark 'JOYNSON/ FINE QUALI...', f.s.
Size: 7 1/4 x 6" (195 x 152 mm)
Signature: 'the General' on letter
Inscription: 'These gentlemen in the first throes of digestion with the "toad in their belly["]! ha! ha!! - '

Whistler raiding the Chelsea Arts Club

Whistler raiding the Chelsea Arts Club was drawn in a letter from Whistler in London to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) at 110 rue du Bac, Paris, postmarked 24 November 1896. 1 The inscription concerns William Eden (1849-1915), a member of the Chelsea Arts Club, who had not, Whistler thought, paid him enough for Brown and Gold: Portrait of Lady Eden [YMSM 408].

Whistler raiding the Chelsea Arts Club, Glasgow University Library
Whistler raiding the Chelsea Arts Club, Glasgow University Library

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1482).

Notes:

1: [24 November 1896], GUW #04683.

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