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

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M.1132
(a) Monogram 'VR'; (b) Address to Queen Victoria; (c) Royal Coat of Arms

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: ink and watercolour
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: p. 2, butterfly; p. 10, 'James. McNeill. Whistler'
Inscription: p. 1, 'VR /1887'; p. 2, 'To the Queen's most excellent Majesty. / The humble and dutiful Memorial of the undersigned in behalf of a Society of Your Majesty's faithful Subjects, being Artists, and Patrons and Well-wishers of the Arts and Artists of Your Majesty's Kingdom.'; pp. 3-9, text; p. 10, Royal coat of arms with motto 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE'

(a) Monogram 'VR'; (b) Address to Queen Victoria; (c) Royal Coat of Arms

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1132) as '(a) Monogram 'VR'; (b) Address to Queen Victoria; (c) Royal Coat of Arms'.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 2, pp. 65-67.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 5th (revised) edition, London and Philadelphia, 1911, repr. f.p. 320 as 'Jubilee Memorial from the Society of British Artists to Queen Victoria'.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins and Pennell, Joseph, 'Whistler as Decorator', Century Magazine, vol. 83, February 1912, pp. 500-13, cover and tailpiece repr. p. 510.
  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Whistler Journal, Philadelphia, 1921, pp. 176-7, repr. f.p. 176 as 'First Page of the Memorial to Queen Victoria.'

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004, GUW #13568.

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