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

 

M.0045
Man holding a dog's tail

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1850
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.16
Medium: graphite
Support: tan wove paper
Size: 4 1/16 x 3 1/4" (103 x 82 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: [numbers]

Man holding a dog's tail

Man holding a dog's tail dates from between 1849 and 1851, and was given to Whistler's fellow pupil at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret, CT, Samuel Hammond (1835-1896) .

Man holding a dog's tail, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Man holding a dog's tail, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 45). The entry has been updated.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret