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

 

M.0043
'Shoulder Arms'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1850
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.11
Medium: watercolour over graphite
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 3 1/16 x 3 7/8" (78 x 99 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Shoulder Arms'

'Shoulder Arms'

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

'Shoulder Arms', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
'Shoulder Arms', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 43). The entry has been updated.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret