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

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M.0160
A Dandy and Army Officers

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854/1855
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white paper in A.S. Webb's copy of Bartlett's 'Acoustics and Optics'
Size: unknown
Signature: see below
Inscription: inside cover, various; title page, 'Commenced Jan. 14th. 1854 / Alexr. S. Webb / Cadet [W.S.Webb]'; other notes in various hands

A Dandy and Army Officers

A Dandy and Army Officers dates from 1854/1855: the Dandy may be by Whistler. It belonged to a fellow West Point cadet, Alexander Stewart Webb (1835-1911) .

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 160).

Last updated: 4th January 2019 by Margaret