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

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M.1344
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Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: paper
Size: unknown, photograph 198 x 132 mm (7 3/8 x 5 3/16")
Signature: butterfly on letter
Inscription: letter from Whistler to W. Heinemann

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Provenance

  • 1892: William Heinemann (1863-1920) , London;
  • 1920: Heinemann's estate;
  • 1922: sold at auction, American Art Association, New York, 13 January 1922 (lot 70, repr.).

The original letter is known only from a typescript and photograph in the Library of Congress and from the 1922 sale catalogue.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret