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

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M.1538
Design for a monogram for the ISSPG

Artist: J. McN. Whistler and/or Joseph Pennell
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685413
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream card
Size: 6 1/8 x 6 5/8" (156 x 169 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'all right - Reduce to - 1/8 height - [illegible]' in unknown hands, and 'Mr Whistler's design/ for the Catalogue/ and Seal of Society/ return to J Pennell', by J. Pennell

Design for a monogram for the ISSPG

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1538) as 'Design for a monogram for the ISSPG'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • 2nd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, 1899 (design reproduced on the cover).
  • 3rd Exhibition, Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Galleries of the Royal Institute, London, 1901 (design reproduced on the cover).

Websites

  • Library of Congress website at https://www.loc.gov.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret