Provenance

• 1881: owned by Thomas Way (1837-1915) and passed to his son, Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London;
• ca 1913: acquired, possibly after T. R. Way's death, from his widow, by Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930);
• 1930: bequeathed to his daughter Sybil Christina Waller (1882-1973);
• 1965: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 12 November 1965 (lot 36) as 'Sketches and Notes', and bought by Knoedler's, New York dealers;
• 1965: bought by Shirley Latter Schlesinger Kaufmann (Mrs Robert B. Kaufmann) (1916-2003);
• 1972: given, in exchange for lithographs, to the University of Glasgow.

Note: this document was not part of the Whistler estate.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 839).

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Although this list of paintings, which includes many major works such as Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother [YMSM 101], may relate to a planned exhibition of Whistler's work, no such exhibition has been identified.