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

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M.1704
The Artist's mother-in-law, Mrs Birnie Philip

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901/1902
Collection: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession Number: 58.737
Medium: pen, black ink and wash
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 131 x 91 mm (5 3/16 x 3 9/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Mrs. Philip/ (Mrs.Whistler's mother)/ at Bath./ by Whistler./ (ex collection of Miss R. Birnie Philip)/ the Artist's Executrix/ & sister-in-law' written by Harold Wright

The Artist's mother-in-law, Mrs Birnie Philip

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1704) as 'The Artist's mother-in-law, Mrs Birnie Philip'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, vol. 56, 1958, p. 112, repr.

Websites

  • Boston Museum of Fine Arts website at https://www.mfa.org.

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