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

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M.1540
Arrangement of paintings at the ISSPG

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: MSS Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 2/18/4
Medium: pencil
Support: cream laid paper, mourning edge, partial watermark of crown over scroll and 'ORIGINAL/ PALE ...MILL', f.s.
Size: 7 11/16 x 6" (196 x 153 mm)
Signature: butterfly on letter
Inscription: letter from Whistler to A. Ludovici

Arrangement of paintings at the ISSPG

Arrangement of paintings at the ISSPG was drawn in a letter from Whistler in Paris to Albert Ludovici, Jr (1852-1932) in London, in late April or May 1898. 1

Arrangement of paintings at the ISSPG, Library of Congress
Arrangement of paintings at the ISSPG, Library of Congress

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1534).

Notes:

1: [April/May 1898], GUW #10694.

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