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

 

M.0866.
Lamplight

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: probably paper
Size: unknown, reproduction 110 x 176 mm (4 5/16 x 6 7/8")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Lamplight

Lamplight dates from 1881.

Lamplight, British Architect, 16 December 1881, repr. f.p. 633
Lamplight, British Architect, 16 December 1881, repr. f.p. 633

Edward William Godwin (1833-1886) wrote in his diary on 3 November 1881: 'To Whistlers promised me sketch for B. A.'. 1 The drawing was published in the British Architect on 16 December 1881.

Fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 866).

Notes:

1: Diary, Victoria and Albert Museum; transcript, Archives of Whistler Paintings Project, Glasgow University Library.

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret