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

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M.0841.
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: probably paper
Size: unknown, possibly 102 x 95 mm, 4 x 3 3/4" (repr. 98 x 92 mm, 3 7/8 x 3 5/8")
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 841) as "Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle' ".

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Possibly Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 185) 'Study for the Portrait of Carlyle'.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, repr. f.p. 171 as 'Study for the "Carlyle" '.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 44-45, repr. f.p. 44.

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