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

 

M.0122
A West Point drummer, and sketches

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1852/1853
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: pen and brown ink
Support: white paper
Size: 6 1/2 x 3 3/4" (165 x 95 mm, sight)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

A West Point drummer, and sketches

Provenance

  • 1852/1853: given to William Robertson Boggs (1829-1911) ;
  • 1911: bequeathed to his daughter, Mrs William Barret Taylor, née Elizabeth McCaw Boggs (1857-1922), Winston, NC;
  • 1922: bequeathed to her daughter, Mrs Ralph Long née Cornelia Storrs Taylor (1895-1972), Wilmington, NC;
  • 1972-present: passed by family descent to a private collection.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 122): the record has been revised.

Exhibitions

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

Last updated: 30th March 2021 by Margaret