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

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M.1666
Sketchbook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1901
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46302
Medium: pen, pencil
Support: blue-squared, wove paper with gilt edge; notebook with cardboard cover, covered with paper having a printed flower pattern of white daisies with yellow centres, and green leaves, on a dark red background; inside cover, paper with white and purple trompe l'oeuil cube pattern; held closed by purple plaited band
Size: book 99 x 66 mm; paper 93 x 60 mm (book 3 7/8 x 2 5/8; paper 3 11/16 x 2 3/8")
Signature: inside cover and p. 11 signed with butterfly
Inscription: notes, draft letters and other texts
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Sketchbook
Front cover, sketchbook, The Hunterian
Front cover, sketchbook, The Hunterian
Front endpapers, sketchbook, The Hunterian
Front endpapers, sketchbook, The Hunterian
Hat?, sketchbook (p. 1), The Hunterian
Hat?, sketchbook (p. 1), The Hunterian
Lady at Dinner, sketchbook (p. 3), The Hunterian
Lady at Dinner, sketchbook (p. 3), The Hunterian
Seated woman wearing a large hat, sketchbook (p. 7), The Hunterian
Seated woman wearing a large hat, sketchbook (p. 7), The Hunterian
Three lines, sketchbook (p. 9), The Hunterian
Three lines, sketchbook (p. 9), The Hunterian
Woman leaning her head on her hand, sketchbook (p. 11), The Hunterian
Woman leaning her head on her hand, sketchbook (p. 11), The Hunterian
Man’s head and shoulders, sketchbook (p. 13), The Hunterian
Man’s head and shoulders, sketchbook (p. 13), The Hunterian
Man’s head, sketchbook (p. 14), The Hunterian
Man’s head, sketchbook (p. 14), The Hunterian
Donkeys pulling a cart, sketchbook (p. 17), The Hunterian
Donkeys pulling a cart, sketchbook (p. 17), The Hunterian
Flowering plant in a pot, sketchbook (back endpaper), The Hunterian
Flowering plant in a pot, sketchbook (back endpaper), The Hunterian
Gilt edge, sketchbook, The Hunterian
Gilt edge, sketchbook, The Hunterian

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret