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'

Sketch of 'Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle' may date from 1884, when the painting it represents, Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle [YMSM 137], was exhibited in Paris.

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

This is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 842) dated '1881/5'.

Last updated: 13th February 2021 by Margaret