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

Description

r.: B. and J. McN. Whistler, Figures, glasses and pottery, The Hunterian
r.: B. and J. McN. Whistler, Figures, glasses and pottery, The Hunterian

The porcelain and glassware were drawn in opposite directions on the two halves of the paper. At lower left, as reproduced above, is a glass with a butterfly winding around the stem. On the right half, as reproduced, there are figures in pencil as well as glasses in pen and ink, one with a butterfly on the stem.

v.: B. Whistler, Head, coffee-pots and glassware, The Hunterian
v.: B. Whistler, Head, coffee-pots and glassware, The Hunterian

A head in profile, silverware including a coffee pot, pottery and glasses.

Last updated: 8th December 2020 by Margaret