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

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M.0067
'What I Once Was'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1850
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 33.2015.23
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: tan wove paper with curved top
Size: 4 5/8 x 6 3/16" (117 x 157 mm)
Signature: 'JW'
Inscription: 'Mr Frampton uses his Umbrella!!' and '50'
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'What I Once Was'

Description

Mr Frampton Uses his Umbrella!!, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Mr Frampton Uses his Umbrella!!, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

The scene is based on Frank E. Smedley's Frank Fairlegh or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil, 1850.

Last updated: 10th March 2021 by Margaret