Policeman and Citizen

Prints and Drawings

1854/55

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Title: Policeman and Citizen
Origin: United States
Date: 1854–1855
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 82 × 56 mm
Credit Line: The Charles Deering Collection
Reference Number: 1927.5879
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Chicago Times Herald (Mar. 8, 1896), p. 30 (ill.).
Nancy D. Pressly, “Whistler in America: An Album of Early Drawings,” Metropolitan Museum Journal V (1972), p. 153.
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 62, no. 202 (ill.).

The artist to John Ross Key [Chicago Times Herald 1896]. Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago [stamp (Lugt 516) verso, lower right, in blue]; by descent to his daughters, Mrs. Chauncey McCormick (née Marion Deering; 1886–1965), Chicago and Mrs. Richard Ely Danielson (née Barbara Deering; 1885–1957), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1927.

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