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

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M.0043
'Shoulder Arms'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1850
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.11
Medium: watercolour over graphite
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 3 1/16 x 3 7/8" (78 x 99 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Shoulder Arms'
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'Shoulder Arms'

Description

'Shoulder Arms', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
'Shoulder Arms', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Soldier with bottle and gun, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Soldier with bottle and gun, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Soldier with bottle and gun [M.0042] and 'Shoulder Arms' [M.0043] appear to illustrate a story of a drunken agument between soldiers.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret