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

 

Man in a peaked cap

Conservation History

The sheet was probably taken from a sketchbook.


                    Man in a peaked cap, photograph, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress
Man in a peaked cap, photograph, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress

According to Annie Harriet Haden (1848-1937), Whistler gave her some 'trivial sketches', which she put in an album he had brought from Paris, 'with my name in gold, stamped outside', possibly at Christmas 1858. 1 These may have been removed and framed later, because she lent 'A frame of ten early pencil sketches' to the Whistler Memorial exhibition in 1905 (cat. no. 207), and these were unmounted and dispersed at a later date.

Notes:

1: Mrs Thynne to Pennell, 20 February 1907, Library of Congress

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret