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

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M.0848
r. and v.: Trellis

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46085
Medium: pen, black ink and watercolour
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 5 x 2 7/8" (178 x 254 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'The trellis work must in this arrangement / be pale primrose color- anything at all / of an orange tendency would make the whole hot - The doors and roofing will give the orange - '
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r. and v.: Trellis

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 848) as 'r. and v.: Trellis'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Willsdon, Clare A. P., 'Nature on the Margins', in Patricia de Montfort and Clare A. P. Willsdon, Whistler and Nature, Compton Verney and the Hunterian, Glasgow, 2018-2019, pp. 77-111, at p. 96.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret