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

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M.0041
An Officer attacked by Brigands

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1850
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.2
Medium: pen, black and brown ink
Support: brown paper, cut out, on cream wove paper
Size: 2 5/8 x 3 15/16" (67 x 100 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r: 'An Officer attacked by Brigands in a dense wood'; v: 'To Sam from Ned / Nov. 21st 1850' in another hand
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An Officer attacked by Brigands

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 41) as 'An Officer attacked by Brigands'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 170) as 'Twenty-two Drawings and Sketches done by Mr Whistler while at School in Pomfret, Conn., about 1850'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Oils, Water-colors, Drawings and Prints by James McNeill Whistler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1934 (cat. no. 43, 44 or 45).

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