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Composition
Ships, Glasgow University Library
The sketch is a little like the etching Her Majesty's Fleet: Evening [310]. This showed the Naval Review and was being printed by 19 August 1887.
Technique
The letter from Hurlbert was written on the first three sides of the folded sheet, and has nothing to do with the drawing upside down on the fourth side, with the incomplete and enigmatic inscription underneath it. The letter was in black ink but the sketch is in a more purplish shade of ink.
Ships, Glasgow University Library
The sketch is not really consistent with Whistler's style. It could possibly have been by Beatrice Philip (Mrs E. W. Godwin, Mrs J. McN. Whistler) (1857-1896), who married Whistler in the following year.
Conservation History
The sheet was folded, for postage. Holes were punched at the top outside corners, for filing. The edges are soiled.
Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret
