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

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M.0129
On Post in Camp: Second half hour

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Accession Number: n/a
Medium: pencil, pen and brown ink
Support: white paper
Size: 9 7/16 x 7 15/16" (239 x 201 mm, sight)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'On Post in Camp. - Second half hour.'

On Post in Camp: Second half hour

Provenance

  • 1853/1854: given to Absalom Baird (1824-1905) ;
  • 1905: bequeathed to his son-in-law Colonel Charles Dudley Da1y (1880-1959) and his wife Beatrice (1885-1969), who gave it to West Point Museum.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 129).

Exhibitions

As far as is known, it was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret