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

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M.0061
'Old Casper'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1849/1851
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.19
Medium: pen, black and brown ink over graphite
Support: tan wove paper
Size: 3 1/2 x 3" (89 x 76 mm)
Signature: 'J. W.'
Inscription: 'Old Casper . . Southey.'

'Old Casper'

Description

'Old Casper', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
'Old Casper', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

'Old Casper' is an illustration to the famous poem 'After Blenheim' by Robert Southey (1774-1843).

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret