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

 

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

An Officer attacked by Brigands

An Officer attacked by Brigands dates from between 1849 and 1851, and was owned by Whistler's fellow pupil at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret, CT, Samuel Hammond (1835-1896) . It is not clear if Whistler, or perhaps Hammond, was the draughtsman.

An Officer attacked by Brigands, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
An Officer attacked by Brigands, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

This was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 41), where it was dated 1849/1851. The entry has been updated.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret