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

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M.1496
A girl seated wearing a pinafore

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1897
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46261
Medium: charcoal and pastel
Support: brown wove paper laid down on double sided card with stamp of W. Holland
Size: 11 1/16" x 7 1/16" (274 x 179 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Girl seated, facing front' and, crossed out, '(Lily Pammington)' possibly by R. B. Philip

A girl seated wearing a pinafore

Technique

A girl seated wearing a pinafore, The Hunterian
A girl seated wearing a pinafore, The Hunterian

The girl was drawn in chalk, tinted with muted shades of colour. The dress was drawn with angular lines, and shaded with diagonal lines.

Conservation History

The board bought from Holland has brown paper on both sides, but was only drawn on the one side. The paper is a dull dark brown paper with stalk-fragments and long fibres, and a vertical grain.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret