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

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M.0025
George Washington Whistler's grave

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685412
Medium: pen and brown ink over pencil
Support: cream laid paper with narrow black mourning border, partial watermark of Prince of Wales' feathers above a double arch
Size: 8 13/16 x 7 1/4" (224 x 183 mm)
Signature: 'JW.'
Inscription: none

George Washington Whistler's grave

Provenance

  • Date unknown: possibly given to Whistler's mother, Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881) or her sister, Catherine Jane Palmer (1812-1877) , in Stonington, CT;
  • 1877-1933: passed by family descent;
  • 1933: discovered by Kate Palmer's grand-daughter, Lilian MacNeill Palmer (b. 1871) when she inherited the Palmer 'Corner House', Stonington, CT 1 ;
  • 1933/1936: acquired from L. M. Palmer by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936) ;
  • 1936: gift of E. R. Pennell to the Library of Congress.

Notes:

1: Letter from L. M. Palmer to Herbert Putnam, Library of Congress, 8 May 1936, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection.

Last updated: 12th December 2018 by Margaret