Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1878/1879 Collection: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Accession Number: WA.OA.1059 Medium: pen and ink Support: off-white paper Size: 2 x 1 3/4" (50 x 44 mm) Signature: none Inscription: ' "Ye Owl" ' and fragments of a letter
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 675) as "C. A. Howell as 'Ye Owl' ".