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

 

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

Sailing boat dates from between 1849 and 1851 and was given to Samuel Hammond (1835-1896) , a schoolmate at Christ Church Hall, Pomfret.

Sailing Boat, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Sailing Boat, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 65).

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret