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

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M.0088
Mr Pecksniff, blown out (Pelouze's Album, p. 62)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1851/1853
Collection: Colby College Museum of Art
Accession Number: 2013.354
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: white wove paper in album
Size: 4 1/16-5 1/4 x 4-4 3/8" (103-133 x 102-111 mm); album 10 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/4" (25.4 x 19.37 x 3.18 cm
Signature: 'J.W.'
Inscription: 'Whistler' in unknown hand

Mr Pecksniff, blown out (Pelouze's Album, p. 62)

Mr Pecksniff, blown out (Pelouze's Album, p. 62) dates from between 1851 and 1853. Whistler drew several sketches in an album for a fellow West Point cadet, Louis Henry Pelouse (1831-1878) .

Mr Pecksniff, blown out , Pelouze's Album, p. 62, Colby College Museum of Art
Mr Pecksniff, blown out , Pelouze's Album, p. 62, Colby College Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 88). The history of this work has been updated.

Last updated: 2nd January 2019 by Margaret