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

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M.1537
r.: Designs for monogram for ISSPG ; v.: Tracing of monogram for ISSPG

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685411
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream laid paper, partial watermark '898'
Size: 4 7/16 x 3 7/16" (112 x 88 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'Take your choice/ I mark what perhaps I/ prefer *' by Whistler, and inscribed, probably by Pennell 'this'; v.: inscribed, as signed, 'return to J Pennell', and '… to have the pleasure / of studying with you/ Very sincerely yours/ E. R. Pennell'

r.: Designs for monogram for ISSPG ; v.: Tracing of monogram for ISSPG

r.: Designs for monogram for ISSPG ; v.: Tracing of monogram for ISSPG were designed for the catalogue of the 2nd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1899.

Several of the designs were published in the Daily Chronicle, London, 9 May 1899.

r.: Designs for monogram for ISSPG, Library Of Congress
r.: Designs for monogram for ISSPG, Library Of Congress

They are catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1537) dated 1898.

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