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

Titles

The inscription gives the full title as 'An Officer attacked by Brigands in a dense wood': however, the wood appears to be limited to a small tree at left.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret