Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002235Oscar Wilde and Whistler
Inscriptions
Signed recto, upper right, in black ink: "Phil May / 94;" inscribed recto, at bottom, in black ink and graphite: " 'That was an awfully [witty remark] good joke you made last/ night. I wish I [had made it.] could say it was mine.' / 'You will [underlined] my boy. You will [underlined].';" inscribed and erased, lower right, in graphite: "Same size underlined]"
Provenance
Sold by Albert Roullier Gallery, Chicago, to Walter Stanton Brewster (1872-1954, Lugt Suppl., 2651 a-b), Chicago, February 25, 1930 [invoice]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions," June 20-September 27, 2015, Checklist para. 9, cat. 8.18 (ill.).
Publications
Phil May, Phil May's Sketch-Book, Fifty Cartoons (London, 1903), pl. XIII Meg Hausberg and Victoria Sancho Lobis. Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions. Department of Publishing of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2015 (https://publications.artic.edu/whistler/reader/linkedvisions ; Accessed August 24, 2015), Checklist para. 9, cat. 8.18 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Philip William May / English, 1864-1903
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, with black crayon and touches of blue crayon, on ivory laminate board
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 35.4 × 25.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
- Accession no.
- 1933.238
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