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Description: | Royal (1) Inscr. in pencil by Harold Wright; "Draped figures on a terrace/by J.McNeill Whistler"
(2) Watermark: "DEDB" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) This drawing and another by Whistler, (MacDonald 1995 (342)) also in this collection (See GLAHA 46016), are two halves of the same sheet of paper. Both drawings are ideas for compositions with robed women by a railing overlooking the sea. Whistler used this composition again in his "Six Projects" for the Liverpool shipping magnate, F.R.Leyland. "Variations in Blue and Green" is one of these "Six Projects" and is now in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., U.S.A. The figure on the right, framed by Whistler, may be a study for the oil "Annabel Lee" (YMSM 79) in this collection (See GLAHA 46377). Harold Wright, who inscribed the work, was a scholar from Colnaghi's department of print and drawings who helped Miss Birnie Philip to catalogue Whistler's estate. (See also GLAHA 46018).
Birnie Philip Bequest 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SIX PROJECTS : ANNABEL LEE : VARIATIONS : TERRACE : WOMEN : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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