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

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M.0849
Design for Lady Archibald Campbell's parasol

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881/1882
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46086
Medium: pencil and watercolour
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 11 9/16 x 9 1/8" (293 x 232 mm)
Signature: two butterflies
Inscription: 'I will send you the size in a drawing / but you ought to carve it from a natural/ flower: I suppose it will be carved in box / wood [or] very strong wood? The wood I should / wish to / be painted / in the natural / colors of the flower / [by Mr.] Whistler // room enough/ for the hand to grasp / between the flowers // head wth hole / for screw. / Smaller bud / on left side of stick to/ recline on the parasol.' possibly written by Lady A. Campbell

Design for Lady Archibald Campbell's parasol

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 849) as 'Design for Lady Archibald Campbell's parasol'.

Books on Whistler

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Susan Galassi, Aileen Ribeiro, and Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion, New Haven and London, 2003, pp. 182-82, pl. 176.

Catalogues 1906-Present

Whistler, Women and Fashion, The Frick Collection, 2003 (see Books on Whistler, above).

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

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