Provenance

• 1898: with Goupil, London art dealers;
• 1899: bought by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit, 1 August 1899;
• 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

• 1898: Pictures, Drawings, Bronzes, Pottery, Antique Furniture, Decorative Metal Work, &c, Goupil Gallery, at Howard Gallery, Sheffield, 1898 (cat. no. 53) as 'Blue and Silver – "The Choppy Channel" '.
• 1901: Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (cat. no. 97) as 'Blue and Silver – The Chopping Channel'.
• 1904: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler, Copley Society, Boston, 1904 (cat. no. 99) as 'Blue and Silver – The Chopping Channel'.