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

 

M.0003
Flight of Xerxes

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1843
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.10
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper, in a Scrapbook bound in cardboard covered in green paper, with leather spine labelled in gilt 'S[CRAP]B[OOK]' and leather corners
Size: 4 x 5 13/16" (102 x 148 mm) Scrapbook boards 275 x 196 mm, pages 268 x 198 mm
Signature: 'James A. Whistler'
Inscription: 'Flight of Xerxes. Stonington Feb 27th. 1843'

Flight of Xerxes

It is dated 27 February 1843, and was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) .

Flight of Xerxes, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Flight of Xerxes, Metropolitan Museum of Art

For more information on this work, see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 3).

Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret