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

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M.0006
Aunt Alicia; v.: Profile of Aunt Alicia

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1844
Collection: Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY
Accession Number: 1953-186-17-1,2
Medium: pencil
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 5 1/16 x 4 1/8" (128 x 105 mm)
Signature: 'James to Aunty Kate. -'
Inscription: '1844' in unknown hand, and see above

Aunt Alicia; v.: Profile of Aunt Alicia

Provenance

History of drawing, written by Katherine S. Dreier, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY
History of drawing, written by Katherine S. Dreier, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY

  • 1844: sent to Catherine Jane Palmer (1812-1877), Stonington, CT;
  • Date unknown: given by her daughter Emma Woodbridge Palmer (1835-1912) to her friend, the artist Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952);
  • 1953: given by her sister Mary Elisabeth Dreier (1875-1963), to the Cooper Hewitt Museum.

Further details are given in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 6).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 12th December 2018 by Margaret