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

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M.1344
Moneybags

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: paper
Size: unknown, photograph 198 x 132 mm (7 3/8 x 5 3/16")
Signature: butterfly on letter
Inscription: letter from Whistler to W. Heinemann

Moneybags

Moneybags was drawn in a letter from Whistler to William Heinemann (1863-1920) in October 1892, celebrating a portrait commission and the arrival of a cheque for Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket [YMSM 170]. 1

Moneybags, facsimile in Library of Congress
Moneybags, facsimile in Library of Congress

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1344).

Notes:

1: [October 1892], GUW #10787.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret