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

Technique

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

The writing on the recto, and the style of drawing, do not look entirely consistent with Whistler's work. The 'Ned' who gave the drawing to Hammond may have been Edward Lawrence Hyde (1835-1917), and he may have been the artist.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret