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

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M.1154
r.: Studies of a sleeping cat; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46123
Medium: pencil
Support: on off-white wove paper, inlaid in album, f.5
Size: 4 3/4 x 3 3/16" (121 x 81 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

r.: Studies of a sleeping cat; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand

Technique

r.: Studies of a sleeping cat, The Hunterian
r.: Studies of a sleeping cat, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1154).

Conservation History

This is one of several drawings that were bound into an album, possibly by the Redfern Gallery, London, ca 1950.

v: Anon., Indecipherable, The Hunterian
v: Anon., Indecipherable, The Hunterian

Several of the sheets in the book have rough (and in this case, incomprehensible) sketches by an unknown hand.

Last updated: 8th December 2020 by Margaret