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

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Head (Thomas Wilson's autograph book, p. 3)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852
Collection: United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Accession Number: Wilson, Thomas, 1832-1901, USMA 1853, CU # 1607
Medium: pen, brown and black ink
Support: white wove paper, in maroon leather-bound album 'Flowers of Loveliness', with stamped and gilt decoration on the cover, and hand-tinted lithographs of flowers on some pages, published by J. C. Riker, 129 Fulton Street, New York, 64 pages (128 sides)
Size: 7 11/16 x 6 1/8" (196 x 156 mm)
Signature: 'J. Whistler.'
Inscription: none
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Head (Thomas Wilson's autograph book, p. 3)

Head (Thomas Wilson's autograph book, p. 3) dates from July or August 1852. The book belonged to a fellow cadet at West Point, Thomas Wilson (1832-1901).

Head (Thomas Wilson's autograph book, p. 3), USMA
Head (Thomas Wilson's autograph book, p. 3), USMA

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 112).

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret