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

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M.0142
Monk reading

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: St Louis Art Museum, MO.
Accession Number: 1:1923
Medium: gouache and watercolour
Support: dark brown paper
Size: 11 13/16 x 15 9/16" (300 x 395 mm)
Signature: 'J.Whistler.'
Inscription: 'Presented to Cadet A.K. Leigh by his affectionate room-mate Cadet James A. Whistler.'

Monk reading

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 142) as 'Monk reading'.

Books on Whistler

  • Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, and Joseph Pennell, The Life of James McNeill Whistler, 2 vols, London and Philadelphia, 1908, I, p. 32.

Last updated: 3rd January 2019 by Margaret