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

 

M.0303
'The Woman in White'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1862
Collection: Wadsworth Athenaeum, Wadsworth, CT
Accession Number: 1925
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper
Size: 9 x 8 7/8" (178 x 225 mm)
Signature: 'Jemmie Whistler' (on letter)
Inscription: 'Whistler's Extraordinary picture the WOMAN IN WHITE'

'The Woman in White'

Technique

'The Woman in White', Wadsworth Athenaeum
'The Woman in White', Wadsworth Athenaeum

A lively, confident drawing, similar to Whistler's cartoons and caricatures done at West Point several years earlier.

Conservation History

The drawing is on the third side of a folded sheet that was folded twice more for the post. It has darkened and is abraded and torn along the folds.

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret