Technique

The brushwork is crude and not totally compatible with Whistler's usual work, but given the provenance, it has been included here as a possible work by Whistler. See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 672).

Conservation History

The sheet may have been torn by the artist and intended for destruction, but retrieved and repaired by Thomas Way (1837-1915) or his son Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913).