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

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M.1452
Plan of a room

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler F268
Medium: pencil
Support: white laid paper, watermark 'TOWGOOD'S/ FINE' and printed heading of 'THE FINE ART SOCIETY, LIMD,/ 148 NEW BOND ST. W.', f.s.
Size: 9 13/16 x 7 3/4" (250 x 197 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: letter from Ernest Brown to Whistler; and 'Liquid petroleum/ Chrismolene' in another hand, possibly by R. B. Philip

Plan of a room

Technique

Plan of a room, Glasgow University Library
Plan of a room, Glasgow University Library

The plan is small, only about 80 mm (3 1/8") long. It may have been drawn by Whistler or one of the Birnie Philips.

Conservation History

The first and fourth sides are blank, the letter being written on the two inner sides, and the plan added after the signature, on side three. The letter was folded once vertically and then into three horizontally, and the folds are a little dirty.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret