Provenance

• Before 1903: owned by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938);
• 1903: with Ernest Brown & Phillips, London.
• 1988: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 11 November 1988 (lot 301, repr.);
• 1988: bought by Ira Spanierman (n/a), New York art dealer.
• By 2015: bought by a private collector.

Exhibitions

• 1903: Mortimer Menpes Collection of Etchings, Drypoints and Lithographs, by J. McNeill Whistler, E. Brown & Phillips, Leicester Galleries, London, 1903 (cat. no. 209) as 'Wash drawing of St Paul's / Study for an etched plate'.