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'

Position of a Soldier

Provenance

  • 1944: Bought with the Pennell Fund for the Library of Congress.

See earlier history in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 103).

Last updated: 2nd January 2019 by Margaret