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

Description

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

A small sailing boat, sailing away from the viewer: a man with a feather in his cap is pulling on a rope to raise the sail, and a young woman is kneeling at the stern, looking into the water..

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret