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

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M.0053
Lady playing the harp

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1851
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.5
Medium: watercolour and graphite
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 4 5/8 x 3 3/8" (118 x 85 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v: [arithmetic] / '7'

Lady playing the harp

Lady playing the harp dates from between 1849 and 1851, and was given to Whistler's fellow pupil at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret, CT, Samuel Hammond (1835-1896) .

Lady playing the harp, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Lady playing the harp, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 53).

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret