The Cap

1893

James McNeill Whistler

Associated Names
James McNeill Whistler

Artist, American, 1834 - 1903

The image shows a sketch of a figure standing in a side profile facing right. The person has weight on one leg, facial features outlined lightly, and their hair covered with a headscarf or cap. The figure wears long, flowing garments hanging down the body, and holds onto the fabric trailing behind them with one hand. No jewelry is visible. The background is plain with minimal context beyond the figure.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.7 × 13 cm (8 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 21.9 × 18 cm (8 5/8 × 7 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.379

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Stratis & Tedeschi 1998, no. 78

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1896

  • Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 158.

1998

  • Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 250-252, no. 78.

Wikidata ID

Q65076717

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