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

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M.0166
'Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.63
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: orange laid paper laid down on card
Size: 3 13/16 x 2 3/4" (97 x 70 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!'

'Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 166) as ''Then Sir - I am the King of Spain!!!''.

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.

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