A Fire at Pomfret
date: label: Date
content: 1849
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Description
content: Framed.
label: Signatures
content: Unsigned.
label: Inscriptions
content: Verso: Sketch at Pomfret by James W. (unknown hand)
label: Paper/Support
content: On hot-pressed, wove paper.
label: Provenance
content: To 1905
label: Provenance
content: Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London, to 1905 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1905 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Thomas Robert Way in 1905 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record. See also, Whistler Reserved List, R. 5826, as well as Original Whistler List of Paintings, etc., Transferred to Smithsonian Institution, January 3, 1921, pg. 2, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1. According to Curatorial Remark 3, G.D. Guest, 1927, the registration number for this object was changed to correspond with the year of purchase.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler (February 22 to April 15, 1905)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, William Marchant & Co. (1903)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: yellow
label: Topic
content: yellow pigment
label: Topic
content: cobalt blue
label: Topic
content: Prussian blue
label: Topic
content: burnt sienna
label: Topic
content: vermilion
label: Topic
content: Mars pigment
label: Topic
content: cochineal
label: Topic
content: underdrawing
label: Topic
content: work
label: Topic
content: fire
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: Whistler in Watercolor
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1905.333a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Watercolor over graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 12.8 x 19.6 cm (5 1/16 x 7 11/16 in)