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

Technique

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

It is elaborately coloured, lettered and outlined, with mountain ranges and the sea indicated. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 78).

Conservation History

The drawing was stuck into an album (p. 17).

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