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

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M.0140
r.: A Monk with a donkey, and a reclining figure; v.: a mediaeval lady, and other heads of men and women

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.27
Medium: r.: pencil, pen, brown and black ink; v.: pencil, brown ink and wash
Support: off-white wove paper, partial watermark 'MAN/MILL', in an album
Size: 5 3/4-5 15/16 x 7 1/8" (145-151 x 180 mm)
Signature: 'JAW.'
Inscription: none

r.: A Monk with a donkey, and a reclining figure; v.: a mediaeval lady, and other heads of men and women

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 140) as 'r.: A Monk with a donkey, and a reclining figure; v.: a mediaeval lady, and other heads of men and women'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54.

Websites

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art website as 'Man with Donkey and Reclining Boy (Recto); Two Areas Blocked in Blue: Head of Man, Female Head and Head (Verso)'.

Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret