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

 

M.0058
'Sackcloth without and a good Sack within'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1851
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.13
Medium: pen and brown ink over graphite
Support: tan wove paper
Size: 4 1/8" x 3 1/8" (105 x 80 mm)
Signature: 'J. W.'
Inscription: 'Sackcloth without, and a good / Sack within.'

'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