Green and Gold: A Shop in Calais dates from 1896.

Green and Gold: A Shop in Calais, The Hunterian

On 16 September 1896 Whistler wrote to his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958), from Calais, 'I began a little shop here - but it was a queer hard day today & I have done no good - Perhaps I had better get at some thing else', and on the following day he wrote that he had stayed on 'in the hope of finishing one small shop I had begun - It would be worth while.' 1