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

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Childs' Geometry book: (a) Spider's web, surveying instruments and man with lorgnette; (b) Man wearing a top hat

Childs' Geometry book: (a) Spider's web, surveying instruments and man with lorgnette; (b) Man wearing a top hat dates from about June 1853 when Whistler was at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Alexander Stewart Webb (1835-1911) was a fellow cadet and Frederick Lynn Childs (1831-1894) , nicknamed 'L'Enfant', was Whistler's room-mate


                Childs' Geometry book: (a) Spider's web, surveying instruments and man with lorgnette; (b) Man wearing a top hat, Private Collection
Childs' Geometry book: (a) Spider's web, surveying instruments and man with lorgnette; (b) Man wearing a top hat, Private Collection

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 126).

Last updated: 4th January 2019 by Margaret