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

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Man shot from a cannon

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1850
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.9
Medium: watercolour over graphite
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 2 15/16 x 3 15/16" (75 x 100 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: illegible
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Man shot from a cannon

Man shot from a cannon dates from between 1849 and 1851, and was given to Whistler's fellow pupil at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret, CT, Samuel Hammond (1835-1896).

Man shot from a cannon, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Man shot from a cannon, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 44). The entry has been updated.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret