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

 

M.0047
Man seated at table

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1850
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.15
Medium: graphite
Support: tan wove paper
Size: 1 3/4 x 4 1/4" (45 x 108 mm) irregular
Signature: none
Inscription: v: ' [ ] / chemistry - [ ] / Alchemist / 1 Sulphuric acid / 2 Nitric Acid / 3 [ ] / 4 Carbonic'

Man seated at table

Man seated at table dates from between 1849 and 1851, and was given to Whistler's fellow pupil at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret, CT, Samuel Hammond (1835-1896) . The entry has been updated.

Man seated at table, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Man seated at table, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 47).

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret