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

 

M.0042
Soldier with bottle and gun

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1850
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.14
Medium: watercolour and graphite
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 44 1/4 x 2 5/8" (108 x 67 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Soldier with bottle and gun

Soldier with bottle and gun dates from between 1849 and 1851, and was given to Whistler's fellow pupil at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret, CT, Samuel Hammond (1835-1896) .

Soldier with bottle and gun, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Soldier with bottle and gun, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 42). The entry has been updated.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret