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

 

M.1643
Sketchbook

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900-1901
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46301
Medium: pencil and pen and ink
Support: cream wove paper; sketchbook, black leather spine; front cover grey/green card with printed heading 'No.1./ SKETCH/ BLOCK./ HARD ROUGH FINISH./ ID. H. M.& S'; back cover cream card, half torn off; 70 pp.
Size: 3 7/16 x 5 7/8" (87 x 150 mm)
Signature: several butterflies
Inscription: various

Sketchbook

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1643) as 'Sketchbook'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • MacInnes, Margaret F., [M. F. MacDonald], 'Whistler's Last Years: Spring 1901 - Algiers and Corsica', Gazette des beaux-arts, vol. 73, 1969, pp. 323-42, at pp. 323-26, 339 note 5, repr. fig. 2-3.

Websites

  • The Hunterian, University of Glasgow website at collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 9th December 2020 by Margaret