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

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M.0203
Portrait of John Ross Key

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854/1855
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1908.200
Medium: charcoal and chalk
Support: buff wove paper
Size: 19 1/8-19 3/4 x 12 1/16-12 3/16" (485-502 x 306-310 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: v.: 'Portrait of John Ross Key, grandson of Francis Scott Key, drawn by James McNeill Whistler at the Coast Survey Office, Washington, in 1854.' in an unknown hand

Portrait of John Ross Key

Portrait of John Ross Key dates from 1854 or 1855. It was given by Whistler to a fellow-draughtsman at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington DC, John Ross Key (1837-1920) .

Portrait of John Ross Key, Freer Gallery of Art
Portrait of John Ross Key, Freer Gallery of Art

It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 203).

Last updated: 3rd March 2021 by Margaret