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

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M.0270
An artist sketching

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.207
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 8 1/8" x 6-6 1/16" (206 x 152-154 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'SH', possibly by F. S. Haden; '1858' in an unknown hand

An artist sketching

An artist sketching dates from between August and October 1858.

An artist sketching, Freer Gallery of Art
An artist sketching, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawing is the basis for the etching An Artist Sketching [23], which was dedicated to Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) and printed by Auguste Delâtre (1822-1907) in November 1858.

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 270).

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret