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

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M.0192
r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol; v.: Lenses and prisms

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1855
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Accession Number: 1970.121.30
Medium: r: pencil, pen and dark brown ink; v: pencil
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 7 7/16-7 9/16 x 4 13/16-4 15/16" (190-192 x 122-127 mm)
Signature: 'J. Whistler. 1855.' or possibly 'J A Whistler. 1855.'
Inscription: ' "Jack Shephard" [sic], "Edgeworth Bess" & "Pol" '

r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol; v.: Lenses and prisms

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 192) as 'r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol; v.: Lenses and prisms'.

Journals 1906-Present

  • Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54, at pp. 136-37, repr. fig. 12.

Websites

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Last updated: 14th March 2021 by Margaret