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Album

1854–55
Not on view
This image represents one of 102 drawings in this sketchbook.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Album
  • Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
  • Date: 1854–55
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Drawings in pen and ink, graphite, gouache, and black chalk on off-white and toned wove and laid paper; cover missing
  • Dimensions: Various sized sheets
  • Credit Line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970
  • Object Number: 1970.121
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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1879
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