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

 

M.0009
Books, pens, cup and saucer

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1845/1847
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Special Collections, Whistler 166
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper, in book, Charles de St Hilaire, 'Lectures francaise a l'usage des familles et des maisons d'Education en Russie', St Petersburg, 1841
Size: boards 7 13/16 x 4 3/8"; paper 7 5/8 x 4 1/8" (boards 189 x 112 mm, paper 186 x 105 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'german [illegible] f. Fahles' [or 'Fables'] [illegible]' in an unknown hand

Books, pens, cup and saucer

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law and executrix, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1958: bequeathed by Miss Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

Not exhibited in Whistlers lifetime.

Last updated: 8th February 2019 by Margaret