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

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M.0187
r.: A man seated on a bench; v.: Diagonal grid

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854/1855
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.4
Medium: r: pencil, pen and black ink; v: pencil
Support: beige wove paper mounted on card
Size: 3 7/8-4 x 3 3/8-3 7/16" (99-101 x 86-88 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

r.: A man seated on a bench; v.: Diagonal grid

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 187) as 'r.: A man seated on a bench; v.: Diagonal grid'.

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 'Startled Man Seated on Bench'.

Last updated: 14th March 2021 by Margaret