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

 

M.0871
Iris

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1882
Collection: Humanities Research Centre, Austin, TX
Accession Number: 65.356
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: white laid paper with mourning edging, watermark 'ALLEN & SONS [?] SUPER FINE', f.s.
Size: 6 15/16 x 4 5/16" (176 x 110 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'Original drawing by J. McNeill Whistler / signed', in unknown hand; v.: 'Upper Grove / l4 March / 82' and coded notes, in unknown hands

Iris

Composition

Iris, Humanities Research Centre, Austin
Iris, Humanities Research Centre, Austin

The subject is connected, remotely, to Whistler's etching Sketch after Cecil Lawson's "Swan and Iris" [247] of 1882, which itself was etched after an unfinished painting by Cecil Gordon Lawson (1851-1882).

Last updated: 19th February 2021 by Margaret