DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Two Women and a Child

c. 1901

Artists

James Abbott McNeill WhistlerArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite and brown wash on cream wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 12 x 7.9 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)

Provenance

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, London, bequest; to Miss Birnie Philip, his sister-in-law, 1903 (as a sketchbook). [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1956], [1] sold; to [Philip Hofer, Cambridge, 1957]. Aimee and Rosamond Lamb, bequest; to Harvard University, Art Museums, 1993 Notes [1] Before being sold by Colnaghi the page was removed from a sketchbook

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