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

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M.0004
Coach and horses

Artist: J. McN. Whistler, possibly with Emma Woodbridge Palmer
Date: 1840/1843
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: PE1111/.B6/1840//c.2/P&P/Pennell
Medium: pencil and dark brown ink
Support: off-white paper, in Goold Brown, 'The Institutes of English Grammar', New York, 1832, revised edition
Size: cover 7 5/16 x 4 5/16"; paper 7 3/16 x 4 1/8" (cover 186 x 109; paper 182 x 105 mm)
Signature: 'James A. Whistler' etc, see below
Inscription: 'James A. Whistler / Springfield / Mass / Palmer / James A W / James A Whistler / Sprin[gfield] / JAW' in hands of Whistler and another

Coach and horses

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 4) as 'Coach and Horses'.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, vol. 1, pp. 26-27.

Last updated: 12th December 2018 by Margaret