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

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M.0121
r.: The Guard Tents; v.: Fragment, illegible

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852/1853
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.68
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: brown paper laid down on card
Size: 1 1/16 x 2 5/8" (27 x 67 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'The Guard Tents'; v: '68' in another hand

r.: The Guard Tents; v.: Fragment, illegible

r.: The Guard Tents; v.: Fragment, illegible dates from 1852/1853 and was given by Whistler to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and his family.

r.: The Guard Tents, Metropolitan Museum of Art
r.: The Guard Tents, Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 121).

Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret