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

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M.0724
Flowers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1879/1880
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler P14
Medium: charcoal
Support: off-white grey-lined paper, f.s.
Size: 12 13/16 x 8" (325 x 203 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: [letter starting:] 'To the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette -'
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Flowers

Flowers was drawn on the back of the draft of a letter from Whistler to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette,late in 1879, or during the following year, when Whistler was in Venice. 1 The letter has nothing to do with the drawing.

Flowers, Glasgow University Library
Flowers, Glasgow University Library

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 724).

Notes:

1: Whistler to Frederick Greenwood, [18 September 1879/1880], GUW #04375.

Last updated: 8th March 2021 by Margaret