Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1849/1850 Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Accession Number: 33.2015.2 Medium: pen, black and brown ink Support: brown paper, cut out, on cream wove paper Size: 2 5/8 x 3 15/16" (67 x 100 mm) Signature: none Inscription: r: 'An Officer attacked by Brigands in a dense wood'; v: 'To Sam from Ned / Nov. 21st 1850' in another hand
The inscription gives the full title as 'An Officer attacked by Brigands in a dense wood': however, the wood appears to be limited to a small tree at left.
