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

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M.1542
Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895/1900
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46274
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 5 3/16 x 4" (132 x 102 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Sketch of Miss Peck (later Mrs Farquharson)' [sic] in Harold Wright's hand

Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck

Composition

Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, The Hunterian
Study for a portrait of Miss Marion Peck, The Hunterian

This is a study of the Portrait of Miss Marion Peck [YMSM 439].

Technique

The study was drawn in ink with a fine nibbed pen, the oulines scrawled boldly, the shadows cross-hatched carefully.

Conservation History

The paper has a horizontal fold across the centre, and a torn edge down the right.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret