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

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M.1426
Nude with raised arms

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1895
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler W798
Medium: pen and purple ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 4 1/2 x 4 3/4" (114 x 120 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: note 'Boston example of American architecture: / A Greek temple with a lift-', signed with butterfly
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Nude with raised arms

Nude with raised arms probably dates from the early 1890s. 1 The note, the joke quoted above, is unrelated to the drawing.

Nude with raised arms, Glasgow University Library
Nude with raised arms, Glasgow University Library

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1426).

Notes:

1: GUW #06809.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret