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

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M.0673
Howell and Whistler leaving the show on fire

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1878
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler LB12 p.61
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: ivory laid paper, partial watermark '...NT'
Size: 4 3/8 x 3 7/16" (112 x 88 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: '-Show', 'coin', 'Various' by Whistler; '5. February - 1878' by C. A. Howell
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Howell and Whistler leaving the show on fire

Howell and Whistler leaving the show on firewas dated 5 February 1878 by Charles Augustus Howell (1840?-1890).

Howell and Whistler leaving the show on fire,Glasgow University Library
Howell and Whistler leaving the show on fire,Glasgow University Library

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 673).

Last updated: 23rd April 2021 by Margaret