[Letter with eleven humorous sketches, from Whistler to Paul, headed "Baltimore, Sunday night -- am (Down -- derry down)"]

Autograph letter to a person identified only as Paul; interspersed with humorous sketches of men, including self-portraits.

Title and sketch captions devised by Library staff.

Letter signed: J. Whistler.

Tan wove paper.

Date from catalogue raisonné.

On front: black collector's stamp of J & E R Pennell (Lugt Suppl. 874a).

James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 179 (p. 54)

Purchase; Pennell Fund; 1939; (390008).

Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.

whistler james mcneill correspondence humorous pictures ink drawings self portraits letter sketches whistler paul baltimore sunday night derry 1854 maryland drawings master james mcneill whistler sunday night watercolors

01/01/1854

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