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

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M.0077
'Willie Whistler and camarades ...

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1851/1852
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 89709197
Medium: pen, dark brown ink and pencil
Support: off-white wove paper, with embossed stamp and printed prospectus of Revd Roswell Park, DD, President, Racine College
Size: 9 3/4 x 7 5/8" (248 x 192 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Cadet Whistler and other members of the 21st look on!' and 'Willie Whistler and "Camarades" on their way to chapel after putting on their Canonicals'
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'Willie Whistler and camarades ...

Provenance

  • 1891: signed at the request of Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), New York art dealer.
  • 1918-1919: with the Ardern Gallery, New York.
  • 1939: bought from the Pennell Fund for the Library of Congress.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 77).

Last updated: 2nd January 2019 by Margaret