The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Rose Pettigrew embraced by a baby dates from about 1890.

Rose Pettigrew embraced by a baby, The Hunterian

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1280).

Images

Subject

Sitter

Rose Pettigrew embraced by a baby, The Hunterian

Rose Pettigrew, photograph

Rose Amy Pettigrew (1872-1958), probably with her niece. The sisters' older brother Alfred and his wife Jane had a little girl, Harriet Lilian, in 1885. Another baby, Ethel Jenny, was born in 1893. She remembers being taken to visit Rose and could therefore have been 'Baby Pettigrew'.

Technique

Technique

Rose Pettigrew embraced by a baby, The Hunterian

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1280).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1935: given by Miss Birnie Philip to the University of Glasgow.

Exhibitions

By the terms of Miss Birnie Philip's Gift, this work cannot be lent to another venue.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1280) as 'Rose Pettigrew embraced by a baby'.

Websites

• The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.