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

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M.1455
Heads of a man and woman, and a cloaked figure

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896/1901
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685427
Medium: pencil
Support: green paper, embossed blue heading '14, BUCKINGHAM STREET,/ STRAND, W.C.', f.s.
Size: 6 7/8 x 8 13/16" (175 x 224 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Heads of a man and woman, and a cloaked figure

Technique

Heads of a man and woman, and a cloaked figure, Library of Congress
Heads of a man and woman, and a cloaked figure, Library of Congress

Several of the drawings are incomprehensible. The figure studies are tiny: the main one, apparently an idea for or reminiscence of a portrait of a cloaked figure, emerges from a maze of cross hatching behind the figure.

Conservation History

The paper is unusual, fibrous, and some paper loss has been suffered at top left. The sheet has been folded once, vertically.

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