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

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M.1001
Sketchbook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1887
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46097
Medium: pencil, wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: album, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8"; paper, 3 3/4 x 5 3/4" (album, 95 x 150 mm; paper, 95 x 147 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: various
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Sketchbook

Sketchbook dates from between 1885 and 1887.

Windows, a violin-shaped sconce, and three butterflies, Sketchbook, The Hunterian, p. 95
Windows, a violin-shaped sconce, and three butterflies, Sketchbook, The Hunterian, p. 95

It includes designs for the music room of Pablo de Sarasate y Navascues (1844-1908) that were carried out in 1887. 1

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1001).

Notes:

1: Dowdeswell 1887 [more], at p. 98.

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret