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

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M.1361
Design for an album for 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1893
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: E. R. & J. Pennell Collection
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream laid paper with watermark 'IMPERIAL CENTURY' and crown
Size: 8 13/16 x 5 13/16" (224 x 147 mm)
Signature: 'J McN Whistler' on letter
Inscription: letter from Whistler to D. C. Thomson

Design for an album for 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces'

Composition

Design for an album for 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces', Library of Congress
Design for an album for 'Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces', Library of Congress

Designs for the album of photographs of Whistler's paintings selected from the exhibition Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892.

Conservation History

The letter is written on sides 1, 2 and 4, the drawings being on the third side, drawn in thin ink with a square-nibbed pen. The letter was folded once more to fit the envelope.

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