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

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M.1553
Frog

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006678408
Medium: pen, brown ink and white paint
Support: tan tracing paper laid down on card
Size: 2 11/16 x 2 11/16" paper; card 8 1/2 x 6 11/16" (69 x 69 mm paper; card 216 x 170 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: on card, r.: 'this/ this/ Reduced to this size/ measured from forehead/ to lower line of belly.'; v.: in unknown hands '38310/ Wm Heinemann/ 4% Today Special/ good block/ 8-89-806.29'; stamp of LC Division of Prints

Frog

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1553) as 'Frog'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, p. v.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, p. 19.

Websites

  • Library of Congress website at http://www.loc.gov.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret