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

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M.1191
Theodore Roussel and Ethel Birnie Philip 'telling' cards

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1888
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream laid paper
Size: 4 3/8 x 6 15/16" (111 x 176 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Theodore Roussel and Ethel Birnie Philip 'telling' cards

Provenance

  • ca 1888: given by Whistler to Théodore Roussel (1847-1926) ;
  • 1926: passed by family descent to his second wife's niece, Agnes Ethel Mackay (1889-1980);
  • 1980: bought by the Fine Art Society, Glasgow, and sold to a private collector.

The provenance given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1193) has been corrected.

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret