Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1874 Collection: British Museum, London Accession Number: 1958-7-8-11 Medium: charcoal and watercolour Support: brown paper, part of envelope Size: 4" x 3 3/16" (102 x 81 mm) Signature: none Inscription: r: '23 Howland... To Mr J. W … / care of F .../ Speke' (address on fragment of an envelope)
There is no record of an exhibition in Whistler's lifetime, although it was a design for decorative brooch to be worn at Mr Whistler's Exhibition, Flemish Gallery, 48 Pall Mall, London, 1874.