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

 

M.0264
Sailor seated

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: white paper
Size: 6 1/4 x 4 3/8" ca (160 x 102 mm ca)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Sailor seated

Sitter

Sailor seated, photograph, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress
Sailor seated, photograph, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress

Probably a German sailor on the riverboat on which Whistler travelled up the Rhine.

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret