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

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M.1481
Skull and crossbones (b)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: E. R. and J. Pennell Collection
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream laid paper, embossed heading in blue, '4, WHITEHALL C0URT,/S.W.', watermark 'JOYNSON/FIRST QUALITY'
Size: 7 1/16 x 8 13/16" (180 x 224 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Skull and crossbones (b)

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1481) as 'Skull and crossbones'.

Books, General

  • Whibley, Charles, A Book of Scoundrels, London, 1897 (title page with design by Whistler).

Catalogues 1906-Present

SALE:

  • Heinemann sale, American Art Association, New York, 13 January 1922 (lot 243).

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