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

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M.0139
Copy after Cattermole's 'Man dispensing Alms'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
Accession Number: Stockbridge Number: 0345
Medium: pencil, pen, black ink and charcoal
Support: orange paper
Size: 28 15/16 x 21 1/16" (735 x 535 mm, sight)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Copy after Cattermole's 'Man dispensing Alms'

Copy after Cattermole's 'Man dispensing Alms' dates from 1853/1854, when Whistler was at USMA, West Point, studying under Robert Walter Weir (1803-1889).

Copy after Cattermole's 'Man dispensing Alms', USMA
Copy after Cattermole's 'Man dispensing Alms', USMA

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 139).

Last updated: 4th March 2021 by Margaret