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

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Portrait of a Girl

Technique

Unknown.

Conservation History

According to William Graham (1841-1910), he found among debris in his studio a 'piece of heavy stiff paste-board', which he cut in two, and found on the larger square a picture: 'I was soon engaged with a sponge and a little water, in disclosing from its strata of dust, a Whistler.' 1

Frame

Unknown.

Notes:

1: Reminiscences sent to C. L. Freer, 3 March 1908, Freer Gallery Archives.

Last updated: 10th November 2019 by Margaret