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

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M.1602
Sketches of 'The Gold Scab'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 91729523
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: off-white laid paper with watermark ‘The Hanover / [star] Note Paper’
Size: 178 x 227 mm (7 x 8 15/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: ‘By J. Whistler’, in an unknown hand

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab'

Sitter

Sketches of 'The Gold Scab', Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Sketches of 'The Gold Scab', Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The figure was a caricature of Frederick Richards Leyland (1832-1892).

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret