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

 

M.1160
Two men sitting in a bar

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1887
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46131
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper, watermark of a lion on top of a crown, over 'Parkins/ Royal F/' (incomplete), and tiny embossed name 'PARKINS & COTTO, LONDON'
Size: 5 15/16 x 3 13/16" (151 x 97 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Two men sitting in a bar

Two men sitting in a bar dates from about 1887. The sheet was originally enclosed in an album, with press-cuttings concerning the Society of British Artists in 1885, but it appears to be unrelated.

Two men sitting in a bar, The Hunterian
Two men sitting in a bar, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1160).

Last updated: 8th December 2020 by Margaret