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

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M.1345
r.: Figures, glasses and pottery; v.: Head, coffee-pots and glassware

Artist: Beatrice and James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46172
Medium: r.: pencil, pen and black ink; v.: pen and black ink
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 5 7/8 x 7 9/16" (150 x 193 mm)
Signature: butterflies, probably by Beatrice Whistler
Inscription: none

r.: Figures, glasses and pottery; v.: Head, coffee-pots and glassware

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death in 1903 and bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1958: bequeathed by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Last updated: 8th December 2020 by Margaret