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

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M.0160
A Dandy and Army Officers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854/1855
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white paper in A. S. Webb's copy of Bartlett's 'Acoustics and Optics'
Size: unknown
Signature: see below
Inscription: inside cover, various; title page, 'Commenced Jan. 14th. 1854 / Alexr. S. Webb / Cadet [W. S. Webb]'; other notes in various hands
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A Dandy and Army Officers

Provenance

  • 1854: owned by Alexander Stewart Webb (1835-1911);
  • 1911: bequeathed to one of his daughters (Helen L. Alexander; Elizabeth Remsen Webb, Anne Remsen Webb, Jr, Caroline Le Roy Webb, Louisa De Peyster Webb, Evalene Loa Webb) and passed by family descent to a private collection.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 4th January 2019 by Margaret