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

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M.0081
(a) 'A la Yankee'; (b) An Outside (Gracie's Album, p. 95)

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1851/1852
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1908.10b and F1908.10c
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, within two embossed lace filigree ovals, each with the publisher's name 'ROCK'
Size: 1 3/16 x 1 7/8" (31 x 48 mm)
Signature: (b) 'J. W.'
Inscription: (a) '"A la Yankee."-' and (b) 'An Outside'
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(a) 'A la Yankee'; (b) An Outside (Gracie's Album, p. 95)

(a) 'A la Yankee'; (b) An Outside (Gracie's Album, p. 95) date from between 1851 and 1852 and were drawn in the album of a fellow cadet at West Point, Archibald Gracie jr (1832-1864).

(a) 'A la Yankee' , Gracie's Album, p. 95, Freer Gallery of Art
(a) 'A la Yankee' , Gracie's Album, p. 95, Freer Gallery of Art
(b) An Outside, Gracie's Album, p. 95, Freer Gallery of Art
(b) An Outside, Gracie's Album, p. 95, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 81).

Last updated: 2nd March 2021 by Margaret