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

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M.0052
Man looking at a picture of the Virgin Mary and Jesus

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1851
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.7
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 4 3/4 x 3 9/16" (120 x 91 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: '8' on verso in unknown hand
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Man looking at a picture of the Virgin Mary and Jesus

Man looking at a picture of the Virgin Mary and Jesus 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 looking at a picture of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Man looking at a picture of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 52).

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret