DrawingsAmerican19th century

Head of a Woman (Elizabeth Dawson?)

c. 1872

Artists

James Abbott McNeill WhistlerArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black, white, and blue chalk on darkened brown wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

26 x 18.8 cm (10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Hunt Henderson, New Orleans; his bequest to Tulane University, 1939; its sale to Grenville L. Winthrop, April 1941; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

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