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

 

M.0093
Baby

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and ink
Support: white paper
Size: unknown
Signature: 'J. Whistler' and '1852' (the date possibly in another hand)
Inscription: 'Cadet Whistler Del - 1852.' possibly in another hand

Baby

Provenance

  • 1852: given to Loomis Lyman Langdon (1830-1910) , a fellow cadet at West Point;
  • By 1884: given by Loomis Lyman Langdon (1830-1910) to the United States Military Academy, West Point; 1
  • Date unknown: missing, either lost or destroyed.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 93)

Notes:

1: The Catalogue of the Museum, United States Military Academy, West Point, 1884, p. 132, no. 1086, as 'An Artist's "Prelude" '.

Last updated: 11th March 2021 by Margaret