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

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M.0336
r.: Nelly; v.: Child

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1866/1869
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.158
Medium: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 6 9/16 x 3 7/8" (167 x 99 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r: 'Nelly -' by Whistler; v: Nelly.', in an unknown hand

r.: Nelly; v.: Child

r.: Nelly; v.: Child dates from 1866/1869 and was given to Whistler's half-sister Deborah Delano Haden (1825-1908) and/or her husband Francis Seymour Haden, Sr (1818-1910) .

r.: Nelly, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Nelly, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 336).

Last updated: 17th February 2021 by Margaret