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

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M.1001
Sketchbook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885/1887
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46097
Medium: pencil, wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: album, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8"; paper, 3 3/4 x 5 3/4" (album, 95 x 150 mm; paper, 95 x 147 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: various

Sketchbook

Composition

Two violin-shaped sconces, Sketchbook, p. 90, The Hunterian
Two violin-shaped sconces, Sketchbook, p. 90, The Hunterian
Three candles on a butterfly-shaped sconce, Sketchbook, p. 92, The Hunterian
Three candles on a butterfly-shaped sconce, Sketchbook, p. 92, The Hunterian
Windows, a violin-shaped sconce, and three butterflies, Sketchbook, p. 95, The Hunterian
Windows, a violin-shaped sconce, and three butterflies, Sketchbook, p. 95, The Hunterian

Whistler designed a music room in pink, white and yellow for Sarasate's Paris apartment, with violin and butterfly-based decorative features. It is no longer extant. 1

Technique

A china cabinet, Sketchbook, p. 5, The Hunterian
A china cabinet, Sketchbook, p. 5, The Hunterian
Shelf, Sketchbook, p. 8, The Hunterian
Shelf, Sketchbook, p. 8, The Hunterian

The sketches are nearly all in pencil, except for the Shelf on p. 8.

Notes:

1: Dowdeswell 1887 [more] , at p. 98; Bendix 1995 [more] , pp. 172-73.

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