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

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M.1675
The Gossips

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: Private collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil, pen, brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 79 x 138 mm (3 1/8 x 5 7/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Gossips

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1675) as 'The Gossips'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Christie's, New York, 6 December 1985 (lot 185, repr.).
  • Christie's, New York, 29 May 1987 (lot 91, repr.) (this lot included Cathedral Close, Canterbury [M.1477], A street in Algiers [M.1648], The Gossips [M.1675]).
  • Christie's, New York, 30 September 1988 (lot 133).

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