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

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M.0177
r.: Paul B. Leeds in Amos Palmer's Shop; v.: ground plan (in unknown hand)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46007
Medium: r.: pen and brown ink; v.: pencil
Support: blue-lined wove paper
Size: 6 x 7 3/4" (152 x 196 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'P. B. L. in Amos Palmer's Shop - Sept. 29th / 54'

r.: Paul B. Leeds in Amos Palmer's Shop; v.: ground plan (in unknown hand)

Provenance

  • 1854: given to Paul Babcock Leeds (1835-1887) ;
  • 1887: probably inherited by his niece, Sarah Avery McIlhenny (1860-1948), Iberia Parish, Louisiana;
  • 1891: sent by her on 21 June to Whistler for a signature, but Whistler neither signed nor returned it;
  • 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1955: given to the University of Glasgow.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 177).

Exhibitions

No exhibitions are known.

Last updated: 27th February 2021 by Margaret