Harvard Art Museums > 1943.614: Sketch of "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle" Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sketch of "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle" (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) , 1943.614,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Jun 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/308020. Identification and Creation Object Number 1943.614 People James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England) Title Sketch of "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle" Other Titles Alternate Title: Sketch for a portrait of Carlyle Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1881-1885 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/308020 Physical Descriptions Medium Brown ink on off-white laid paper Dimensions image: 12.5 x 11 cm (4 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.) actual: 17 x 16.4 cm (6 11/16 x 6 7/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: Brown ink, center right: butterfly monogram inscription: lower center, beneath image, brown ink: Croquis du Portrait du Carlyle watermark: crown over seated female figure with spear and shield Provenance Recorded Ownership History Gustav Nebehay, Berlin. Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York NY, Bequeathed to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop Accession Year 1943 Object Number 1943.614 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Thomas R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, the Artist, John Lane Co. (New York, 1912), reproduced, p. 44 Charles E. Slatkin and Regina Shoolman Slatkin, Treasury of American Drawings, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York, NY, 1947), no. 69 p. xvii, repr as pl. 69 Andrew McLaren Young and Margaret F. MacDonald, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, Yale University Press (New Haven, 1980), p. 84 David Park Curry, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, exh. cat., Freer Gallery of Art / W.W. Norton & Co. (New York and Washington, DC, 1984), p. 247, fig. 222 - 223.1 Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1995), p. 317, no. 842 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
