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

Provenance

  • 1892: sent by Whistler to Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913), London;
  • 1904/1905: probably sold by Way to Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1324).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 6th March 2021 by Margaret