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

 

M.1454
H. C. Pollitt

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1896
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1934.681
Medium: lithographic crayon
Support: thin, transparent transfer paper, tipped onto card
Size: 9 15/16 x 6 1/4" sheet (237 x 158 mm); image 151 x 134 mm
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: '1943', v.: 'W9233' in unknown hands; two collector's marks (both Bryan Lathrop's)

H. C. Pollitt

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1454) as 'H. C. Pollitt'.
  • Spink, Nesta R., Harriet K. Stratis, and Martha Tedeschi, The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, (gen. eds, Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi), 2 vols., Chicago, 1998, vol. 1, 'Untransferred Lithographic Drawings', pp. 512-13 (cat. no. XV) repr. p. 513.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Bryan Lathrop Collection of Etchings and Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1917 (cat. no. 377).
  • American Portrait Drawings, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 1980, pp. 80-81, repr.
  • Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, Art Institute of Chicago and National Gallery of Canada, 1998–1999.

Websites

  • Art Institute of Chicago website at https://www.artic.edu.
  • Clarke, Jay A., and Sarah Kelly Oehler, eds., Whistler Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2020, website (cat. no. 37).
  • Lithograph Portrait Study: Mr. Herbert C. Pollitt at the Freer Gallery of Art website at asia.si.edu.

Last updated: 11th December 2020 by Margaret