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

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M.0078
Map of America

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1851
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.62
Medium: pen, black, red and blue inks and watercolour
Support: beige paper laid down on card, originally in album, numbered '17'
Size: 7 3/4 x 5 1/4" (197 x 134 mm)
Signature: 'J. Whistler. 18,51'
Inscription: 'RUSSIAN AMERICA / BRITISH TERRITORY / UNITED STATES / MEXICO / COLUMBIA' and 'GREENLAND' etc., names of countries, 'PACIFIC OCEAN', islands, major cities, the equator and tropics, latitudes and longitudes, and other features

Map of America

Map of America is signed and dated 1851. It was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) or his family and put into an album.

Map of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Map of America, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 78).

Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret