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

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M.0004
Coach and horses

Artist: J. McN. Whistler, possibly with Emma Woodbridge Palmer
Date: 1840/1843
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: PE1111/.B6/1840//c.2/P&P/Pennell
Medium: pencil and dark brown ink
Support: off-white paper, in Goold Brown, 'The Institutes of English Grammar', New York, 1832, revised edition
Size: cover 7 5/16 x 4 5/16"; paper 7 3/16 x 4 1/8" (cover 186 x 109; paper 182 x 105 mm)
Signature: 'James A. Whistler' etc, see below
Inscription: 'James A. Whistler / Springfield / Mass / Palmer / James A W / James A Whistler / Sprin[gfield] / JAW' in hands of Whistler and another
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Coach and horses

Provenance

1927/1936: given to the Library of Congress by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936).

The early provenance is unknown. It has been suggested that the book was originally owned by Amos Palmer (1827-1861). 1 This is possible but there is no actual proof of his ownership; it probably belonged to another member of the family, Emma Woodbridge Palmer (1835-1912), and may well have been acquired by E. R. Pennell directly from her.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Notes:

1: MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 4).

Last updated: 12th December 2018 by Margaret