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

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M.0096
Holding it for a 'crack Shot'!

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852/1853
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.49 (p. 13)
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper, with diamond-shaped piece of red paper stuck on, laid down on card
Size: 3 1/2 x 2 1/2" (90 x 64 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: "Holding it for a 'crack Shot'!"

Holding it for a 'crack Shot'!

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 96) as 'Holding it for a "crack Shot"!'.

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Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret