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

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M.0076
Man sitting on a beer keg

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1850/1851
Collection: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Accession Number: 1978.13.1
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 3 5/16 x 2 1/8" (85 x 54 mm)
Signature: 'JW.'
Inscription: none

Man sitting on a beer keg

Man sitting on a beer keg dates from between 1850 and 1851, and was given to Whistler's teacher Revd Roswell Park (1807-1869) .

Man sitting on a beer keg, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Man sitting on a beer keg, Albright-Knox Art Gallery

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 76).

Last updated: 15th February 2021 by Margaret