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

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M.0065
Sailing boat

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1851
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.6
Medium: pen and brown ink, pencil and watercolour
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 3 11/16 x 2 7/16" (94 x 62 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r: '4/12'; v: '5'

Sailing boat

Provenance

  • 1849/1850: given to Samuel Hammond (1835-1896) at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret, CT;
  • 1896: passed by family descent to his son, Samuel Hammond (1859-1934) and daughter-in-law Grace Hammond (1874-1972);
  • 1973: given to their son, Professor Mason Hammond (1903-2002) , Harvard, MA;
  • 2002: passed to the estate of Professor Hammond;
  • 2015: anonymous loan and promised gift to the Fogg Museum, Harvard, in honor of Professor Mason Hammond.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 41).

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret