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

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M.0842
Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 1943.614
Medium: pen and greyish-brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper with watermark of crown over seated female figure with spear and shield (?Britannia)
Size: 6 9/16 x 6 3/8-6 7/16" (167 x 162-164 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Croquis du Portrait de Carlyle'

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No.2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 842) as "Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle' ".

Books on Whistler

  • Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 247, fig. 222-23.

Books, General

  • Slatkin, Charles E. and Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Treasury of American Drawings, New York, 1947, no. 69, p. xvii, repr. as pl. 69.

Websites

  • Harvard Art Museums website at https://www.harvardartmuseums.org.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret