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

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Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1864
Collection: Tate Britain, London
Accession Number: N03418
Medium: oil
Support: canvas
Size: 76.5 x 51.1 cm (30 1/8 x 20 1/8")
Signature: 'Whistler.'
Inscription: originally dated '1864'
Frame: Grau-style, after 1892, modified ca 1919 [16.8 cm]

Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, Tate Britain
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, Tate Britain
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, photograph, ca 1864, Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, photograph, ca 1864, Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, in original frame, Pennell 1911, f.p. 124
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, in original frame, Pennell 1911, f.p. 124
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, photograph, Goupil Album 1892, GUL Whistler PH5/2
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, photograph, Goupil Album 1892, GUL Whistler PH5/2
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, photograph, 1892/1894
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, photograph, 1892/1894
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, photograph, before 1903, Мир искусства [Mir Iskusstva, 'World of Art'], vol. 9, no. 7–8, 1903, repr. p. 62
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, photograph, before 1903, Мир искусства [Mir Iskusstva, 'World of Art'], vol. 9, no. 7–8, 1903, repr. p. 62
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, in current frame
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, in current frame
Utagawa Hiroshige, The Banks of the Sumida River, 1857, woodblock print, Victoria & Albert Museum, E.12087-1886
Utagawa Hiroshige, The Banks of the Sumida River, 1857, woodblock print, Victoria & Albert Museum, E.12087-1886
Interior of Whistler's house, Lindsey Row, Pennell 1921, f.p. 152
Interior of Whistler's house, Lindsey Row, Pennell 1921, f.p. 152
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, in current frame
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, in current frame
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, frame detail
Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl, frame detail
Whistler Memorial Exhibition, Boston 1904, photograph, GUL Whistler PH6/10
Whistler Memorial Exhibition, Boston 1904, photograph, GUL Whistler PH6/10
Whistler Memorial Exhibition, Boston 1904, photograph, GUL Whistler PH6/24
Whistler Memorial Exhibition, Boston 1904, photograph, GUL Whistler PH6/24
Dress, ca 1864, Museum of the City of New York, 47.83.1ab
Dress, ca 1864, Museum of the City of New York, 47.83.1ab
'Punch's Advice to Ladies', Punch, 21 February 1863, repr. p. 73
'Punch's Advice to Ladies', Punch, 21 February 1863, repr. p. 73
J. D. Ingres, Comtesse d'Haussonville, The Frick Collection
J. D. Ingres, Comtesse d'Haussonville, The Frick Collection
J. E. Millais, Before the Mirror, 1861, from Laver, James, A History of British and American Etching, 1929
J. E. Millais, Before the Mirror, 1861, from Laver, James, A History of British and American Etching, 1929
E. J. Poynter, The bunch of Blue Ribbons, 1862, private collection
E. J. Poynter, The bunch of Blue Ribbons, 1862, private collection

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