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

 

'Sackcloth without and a good Sack within'

'Sackcloth without and a good Sack within' dates from between 1849 and 1851, and was given to Whistler's fellow pupil at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret, CT, Samuel Hammond (1835-1896) .


                'Sackcloth without and a good Sack within', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
'Sackcloth without and a good Sack within', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 58).

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret