Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.1324
Chelsea Shops

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1892
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: FGA Whistler 87
Medium: pen and purple ink
Support: cream laid paper, watermark of a crown over '… & Gunn/ ... Street', embossed yellow printed heading of '21, CHEYNE WALK,/CHELSEA', letter on 2 ss
Size: 95 x 156 mm (3 3/4 x 6 1/8")
Signature: butterfly; letter signed 'J McN Whistler -' and butterfly
Inscription: letter from Whistler to T. R. Way
print

Chelsea Shops

Chelsea Shops was drawn in a letter from Whistler to Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) dated 7 January 1892, in which he asked for more proofs of lithographs, 'I would like four more of the Chelsea Embankment Shops: like this: on the old Dutch'. 1

Chelsea Shops, Freer Gallery of Art
Chelsea Shops, Freer Gallery of Art

It was catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1324).

Notes:

1: GUW #03413.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret