The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.1149
r.: A woman; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand

r.: A woman; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46130
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper, inlaid in album, f.3.
Size: 4 7/8 x 3 3/16" (124 x 81 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Date

r.: A woman; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand, date from about 1887. The drawings on the verso may be by Whistler's young son, Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), who acquired this drawing (see Ship m1146).

r: A woman, The Hunterian
r: A woman, The Hunterian

v: Anon., Indecipherable , The Hunterian
v: Anon., Indecipherable , The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1149).

Images

r: A woman, The Hunterian
r: A woman, The Hunterian

v: Anon., Indecipherable , The Hunterian
v: Anon., Indecipherable , The Hunterian

Subject

Sitter

r: A woman, The Hunterian
r: A woman, The Hunterian

Not identified. The same woman appears in r.: A woman; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand m1149, r.: Woman, seen from the back; v.: Indecipherable, by an unknown hand m1150, r.: Woman wearing a dress with epaulettes; v.: Tall woman and small man m1152.

Technique

Technique

r: A woman, The Hunterian
r: A woman, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1149).

Conservation History

This is one of several drawings that were bound into an album, possibly by the Redfern Gallery, London, ca 1950.

History

Provenance

Exhibitions

There is no record of an exhibition.

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