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

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M.1711
Sketchbook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1902
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46313
Medium: pen and ink, pencil
Support: cream wove paper, in hard-backed album manufactured by Percy Young, Gower Street, London, WC., 86 sides
Size: 183 x 124 mm (7 3/16 x 4 7/8")
Signature: butterfly inside front cover
Inscription: various

Sketchbook

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death, and bequeathed to his ward and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1958: bequeathed by Miss R. Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret