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

 

M.0308
Design for a picture frame

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Lucas Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
Accession Number: n/a
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: white laid paper
Size: 8 1/4 x 10 5/16" (210 x 262 mm)
Signature: 'Jim Whistler' [signature on letter]
Inscription: [letter]

Design for a picture frame

Provenance

  • 1862: sent on 18 October to George Aloysius Lucas (1824-1909) , Paris;
  • 1909: bequeathed to the Maryland Institute, and later deposited on loan at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret