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

 

M.1454
H. C. Pollitt

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1934.681
Medium: lithographic crayon
Support: thin, transparent transfer paper, tipped onto card
Size: 9 15/16 x 6 1/4" sheet (237 x 158 mm); image 151 x 134 mm
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: '1943', v.: 'W9233' in unknown hands; two collector's marks (both Bryan Lathrop's)

H. C. Pollitt

H. C. Pollitt probably dates from February 1896, when Whistler arranged that Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt (1871-1942) should come for sittings for a lithographic portrait. 1 It is very likely that it was done at the same time as the lithograph Portrait Study: Mr Herbert C. Pollitt c148.

H. C. Pollitt, Art Institute of Chicago
H. C. Pollitt, Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait Study: Mr. Herbert C. Pollitt, lithograph, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Portrait Study: Mr. Herbert C. Pollitt, lithograph, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1454).

Notes:

1: E. Brown to Whistler and reply, 30 January 1896, GUW #01337; Whistler to T. Way, 31 January [1896], GUW #08170.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret