Partial Text from Letter (?); Autograph (from Sketchbook)

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Artist: James McNeill Whistler (American, Lowell, Massachusetts 1834–1903 London)
Date: 1854–55
Medium: Brown ink on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 2 9/16 × 3 7/8 in. (6.5 × 9.8 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: The American Wing
Credit line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970
Accession no.: 1970.121.22 verso

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Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00000181
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Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00000649

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.