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

 

M.1637
Ronald Philip

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900/1901
Collection: The Higgins Museum and Art Gallery, Bedford
Accession Number: P.153
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper with incomplete crown watermark
Size: 152 x 100 mm (6 1/8 x 3 15/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: in Harold Wright’s hand, 'Ronald Philip (Mrs Whistler's / brother)/ by/ Whistler/ (ex Collection of Miss R.Birnie Philip)/ the artist's sister-in-law & executrix' and 'A22358'

Ronald Philip

Technique

Ronald Philip, The Higgins Museum and Art Gallery, Bedford
Ronald Philip, The Higgins Museum and Art Gallery, Bedford

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1637).

Conservation History

The sheet was probably taken from a sketchbook.

Last updated: 23rd February 2021 by Margaret