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

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M.0029
Map of England and Wales

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1850
Collection: New York Public Library
Accession Number: Image ID 5059913
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream laid paper
Size: 4 7/8 x 4 15/16" (123 x 125 mm)
Signature: 'J. Whistler. / 50'
Inscription: r.: 'ENGLAND' and names of cities, islands, channel, etc; v.: 'No 55953' printed

Map of England and Wales

Provenance

  • 1850: given to Whistler's aunt, Catherine Jane Palmer (1812-1877) , or her step-daughter, Emma Woodbridge Palmer (1835-1912) , Stonington, CT;
  • By or in 1912: given or bequeathed to Mary Anna Palmer (Mrs Henry Draper) (1839-1914);
  • 1913: given by Mary Anna Draper to New York Public Library on 2 January 1913.

Emma Palmer showed the map to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), who described it as a 'beautiful little map of England', but returned it on 27 June 1904. 1

The provenance in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 29) has been amended.

Notes:

1: Freer Gallery Archives.

Last updated: 12th December 2018 by Margaret