Two Female Heads and Standing Figure (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)

James McNeill Whistler

Date

1854–55

Type

Print

Medium

Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is an irregular fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.

Department

Drawings and Prints

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1970.121.9

Credit

Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970