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

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M.1105
Sketch of 'Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection
Medium: pencil
Support: cream laid paper, printed and embossed heading 'INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS,/ Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, S.W.', watermark 'HOLYROOD', a helmet on a shield, axes, over a scroll, f.s.
Size: 9 7/8 x 7 15/16" (251 x 202 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: letter with list including: 'Lange Lize girl painting'
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Sketch of 'Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1105) as "Sketch of 'Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks' ".

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp; including The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855-1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari. Online edition, University of Glasgow, 2003-2004. GUW #08188.

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