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

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Sketch for 'Portrait of Miss Grace Alexander'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1873/1876
Collection: British Museum, London
Accession Number: 1958-2-8-7
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, laid down on paper in album
Size: 6 7/8 x 4 3/8" (175-178 x 112 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'sketch for/ portrait of / Grace Alexander/ (not carried out)/ afterwards Lister' in unknown hand
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Sketch for 'Portrait of Miss Grace Alexander'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 506) as 'Sketch for 'Portrait of Miss Grace Alexander''.
  • Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer, and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980 (cat. no. 130).

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