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

 

M.1355b
A Bat

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892/1893
Collection: Bibliothèque du Musée D'Orsay, Paris
Accession Number: Réserve 4° L.19
Medium: unknown
Support: dark cream paper, tipped down around the edge
Size: 4 5/16 x 6" (110 x 152 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

A Bat

Composition

A Bat, Bibliothèque du Musée D'Orsay, Paris
A Bat, Bibliothèque du Musée D'Orsay, Paris
A Bat, proof of lithograph, Bibliothèque du Musée D'Orsay, Paris
A Bat, proof of lithograph, Bibliothèque du Musée D'Orsay, Paris

This is one of two preliminary designs for a frontispiece for the second edition of a book: Montesquiou 1893 A [more] ; it was placed in a deluxe copy of the 1893 edition.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret