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

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M.0172
A man smoking a long pipe

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1854
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.53
Medium: pencil, pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 6 3/8 x 3 9/16" (162 x 90 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

A man smoking a long pipe

Technique

A man smoking a long pipe, Metropolitan Museum of Art
A man smoking a long pipe, Metropolitan Museum of Art

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 172).

Conservation History

The sheet has a conspicuous tear below centre left.

This was among numerous drawings given to the Winans family and stuck into an album.

Last updated: 14th March 2021 by Margaret