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

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YMSM 175a
Four Panels from the Entrance Hall at 49 Princes Gate

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1876
Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession Number: W.36-1922
Medium: oil and gilt
Support: wood
Size: 63.5 x 47.625 cm (25 x 18 ¾") et al
Signature: none
Inscription: none
Frame: wooden

Four Panels from the Entrance Hall at 49 Princes Gate

Titles

The suggested title is:

  • 'Four Panels from the Entrance Hall at 49 Princes Gate'. 1

Description

In 1890 Theodore Child (1846-1892) described the decorations on the staircase as, 'panels imitating aventurine lacquer, decorated with delicate sprigs of pale rose and white flowers in the Japanese taste.' 2

The panels are of varying semi-quadrilateral shapes, freely painted with intertwined flowers and leaves of convolvulus.

Site

Formerly installed in 49 Princes Gate, London.

Notes:

1: See YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 175).

2: Child 1890 [more] .

Last updated: 13th November 2019 by Margaret