The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0192
r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol; v.: Lenses and prisms
Date
r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol; v.: Lenses and prisms dates from 1855. It was given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878).
r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol, Metropolitan Museum of Art
It is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 192).
Images
r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol, Metropolitan Museum of Art
v.: Lenses and prisms, not reproduced.
Subject
Sitter
r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The figures are the highwayman, Jack Sheppard, his accomplice, Edgeworth Bess, and her friend Mrs Pol Maggot, from W. H. Ainsworth's novel, Jack Sheppard: A Romance, first published in London in 1839, and reissued with illustrations by George Cruikshank in 1855. 1
Technique
Technique
r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol, Metropolitan Museum of Art
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 192).
Conservation History
This was among numerous drawings given to the Winans family and stuck into an album.
History
Provenance
- 1853/1854: given to Thomas de Kay Winans (1820-1878) and family;
- 1878-1970: passed by family descent to his daughter Celeste Marguerite Winans (Mrs G. M. Hutton) (1855-1925), her daughter Lucette Marguerite Hutton, Mrs H. A. Prichard (1885-1957), and grand-daughters, Margaret Celeste Prichard, Mrs T. A. Buell (1908-1970), Helen Lucette Prichard, Mrs J. M. King (1913-2005), and Sybil Agnes Prichard, Mrs E. G. Walk (1915-2009);
- 1970: given by Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibitions
Not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 192) as 'r.: Jack Sheppard, Edgeworth Bess, and Pol; v.: Lenses and prisms'.
Journals 1906-Present
- Pressly, Nancy D., 'Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings', Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York, vol. 5, 1972, pp. 125-54, at pp. 136-37, repr. fig. 12.
Websites
- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Notes:
1: Pressley 1972 [more], at pp. 136-37.