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

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M.0135
Sam Weller and Mary fold a carpet

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: white paper
Size: 7 1/4 x 9 3/16" (184 x 233 mm, sight)
Signature: none
Inscription: 'Sam Weller and Mary fold a carpet.'

Sam Weller and Mary fold a carpet

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Sam Weller and Mary fold a carpet, private collection
Sam Weller and Mary fold a carpet, private collection

Sam Weller was a comic character, and Mary, a housemaid, in The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club), which was first published in monthly parts from April 1836-November 1837 and in book form in 1837. Whistler read the edition in the USMA library, West Point.

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret