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

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M.0289
r.: Fumette; v.: Dancing clowns

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1858
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1898.150
Medium: r: pencil and saguine chalk; v: pencil
Support: beige wove paper
Size: 8 1/2" x 5 7/8" (216 x 150 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: r.: 'SH', possibly by F. S. Haden; v.: 'Fumette / Red chalk / drawing' in an unknown hand
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r.: Fumette; v.: Dancing clowns

r.: Fumette; v.: Dancing clowns date from about 1858.

r.: Fumette, Freer Gallery of Art
r.: Fumette, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Dancing clowns, Freer Gallery of Art
v.: Dancing clowns, Freer Gallery of Art

The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 289).

Last updated: 14th December 2019 by Margaret