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

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M.0103
Position of a Soldier

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006678404
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 6 1/8 x 5 1/8" (155 x 130 mm)
Signature: 'J.W.'
Inscription: 'Position of a Soldier: annihilation of the Bowels.' ; and in unknown hands: 'J.McN. Whistler' and '1852'
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Position of a Soldier

Provenance

  • 1852/1853: given to Alexander Stewart Webb (1835-1911);
  • 1911: passed by family descent to a private owner.
  • 1944: bought on 6 April with the Pennell Fund for the Library of Congress.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 103).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 2nd January 2019 by Margaret