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

 

M.1711
Sketchbook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1902
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46313
Medium: pen and ink, pencil
Support: cream wove paper, in hard-backed album manufactured by Percy Young, Gower Street, London, WC., 86 sides
Size: 183 x 124 mm (7 3/16 x 4 7/8")
Signature: butterfly inside front cover
Inscription: various

Sketchbook

Technique

Face, 1902, sketchbook (p. 41), The Hunterian
Face, 1902, sketchbook (p. 41), The Hunterian
Head of a woman, sketchbook (p. 86), The Hunterian
Head of a woman, sketchbook (p. 86), The Hunterian
Flowers, and the neck of a dress, sketchbook (inside back cover), The Hunterian
Flowers, and the neck of a dress, sketchbook (inside back cover), The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1711).

Conservation History

It is thin, cheap paper, with noticeable fibres and flecks of stalk, which give the surface some roughness and bite. Faintly visible on one side is a fine vertical grain, a diamond grain on the other.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret