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

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M.0835
Harper Pennington

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1880/1881
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 1943.3.8812
Medium: chalk and pastel
Support: brown wove paper
Size: 8 7/16 x 5 7/16" (214 x 138 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: two 'LJR' stamps (L. J. Rosenwald)

Harper Pennington

Provenance

  • Date unknown: acquired by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1971);
  • 1943: given to the National Gallery of Art, DC;
  • 1980: transferred from Alverthorpe to Washington, DC.

Exhibitions

No exhibition is recorded in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret