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

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M.0132
Woman drinking

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1853/1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.7
Medium: pencil, pen, black and brown ink
Support: beige paper, laid down in an album
Size: 4 1/2 x 5 9/16" (115 x 141 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

Woman drinking

Technique

Woman drinking,
Woman drinking,

An elaborately shaded, cross-hatched and highly finished drawing. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 132).

Conservation History

The sketch was originally stuck into an album.

Last updated: 13th March 2021 by Margaret