Sam Weller's Landlord in the Fleet
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Object Details
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Provenance
- Probably from 1905 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from an unidentified source, probably in 1905 [1]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] See Whistler Reserved List R. 5824, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The Accession File, Collections Management office, notes that there is no purchase information for this object.
- [2] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art: Whistler as Artist (May 11, 1984 to December 5, 1984)
- Untitled Exhibition, William Marchant & Co. (1903)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1853-1855
- Accession Number
- F1905.332a-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Watercolor over graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10.4 x 14.9 cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8 in)
- Origin
- United States
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Whistler in Watercolor
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- lampblack
- cobalt blue
- burnt sienna
- raw sienna
- iron oxide red
- vermilion
- zinc white
- Mars pigment
- yellow ocher
- indigo
- underdrawing
- smoking
- United States
- American Art
- interior
- shoemaker
- pipe
- illustration
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1905.332a-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3e4a4682b-c3b6-49da-b189-c263b9258486
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