Provenance

Unknown. However, it is very likely that this is Note in Rose and Silver - Dordrecht [M.0970].

Exhibitions

• 1885: The sixty-second Annual Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1885 (cat. no. 635) as 'Silver and Red: Dordrecht'.

It was mentioned in several papers including the Building News, 24 April 1885, Morning Post, 25 April 1885, and The Graphic, 25 April 1885.

Although most descriptions are too vague to identify it, one suggests it may have been Note in Rose and Silver - Dordrecht [M.0970]: The Graphic (25 April 1885), which praised Whistler's 'slight, but suggestive, out of doors studies in watercolour. The little view of "Dordrecht" is especially noteworthy for its picturesque beauty and purity of tone.'