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

 

M.0840
Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1881
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1905.154
Medium: pencil, pen, brown ink and wash
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 5 9/16-5 11/16 x 5-5 3/16" (141-144 x 126-132 mm)
Signature: none, although a cartouche for the signature is indicated to right of the figure
Inscription: 'J. A. M. W' in unknown hand.

Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 840) as 'Portrait of Thomas Carlyle'.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, repr. f.p. 171.
  • Way, Thomas Robert, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, London and New York, 1912, pp. 44-45.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 247, pl. 222.

Websites

  • Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.154 as 'Portrait Sketch of Thomas Carlyle'.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret