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

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M.0009
Books, pens, cup and saucer

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1845/1847
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Special Collections, Whistler 166
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, in book, Charles de St Hilaire, 'Lectures francaise a l'usage des familles et des maisons d'Education en Russie', St Petersburg, 1841
Size: boards 7 13/16 x 4 3/8"; paper 7 5/8 x 4 1/8" (boards 189 x 112 mm, paper 186 x 105 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'german [illegible] f. Fahles' [or 'Fables'] [illegible]' in an unknown hand
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Books, pens, cup and saucer

Books, pens, cup and saucer dates from when Whistler was in St Petersburg between 1845 and 1847.

Books, pens, cup and saucer, Glasgow University Library
Books, pens, cup and saucer, Glasgow University Library

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 9).

Last updated: 8th February 2019 by Margaret