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

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M.1602
Sketches of 'The Gold Scab'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 91729523
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper with watermark ‘The Hanover / [star] Note Paper’
Size: 178 x 227 mm (7 x 8 15/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: ‘By J. Whistler’, in an unknown hand

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab'

Provenance

  • ca 1900: possibly given by the artist to George Francis (Frank) Miles (1852-1894) .
  • 1950: bought by the Library of Congress, 25 January 1950.

Sketch of a Peacock shutter and fighting Peacocks [M.1603] was bought on the same day, and may have come from the same source, whatever that was. It is likely that both had been owned by G. F. Miles.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1602).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret