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

 

M.1018
St Paul's

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1885
Collection: Private Collection
Accession Number: none
Medium: dark brown ink and wash
Support: cream laid paper, watermark 'PIRIS/ 01 Style'
Size: 8 7/8 x 7 3/8" (225 x 187 mm)
Signature: none
Inscription: none

St Paul's

Provenance

  • Before 1903: owned by Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938) ;
  • 1903: with Ernest Brown & Phillips, London.
  • 1988: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 11 November 1988 (lot 301, repr.);
  • 1988: bought by Ira Spanierman (n/a) , New York art dealer.
  • By 2015: bought by a private collector.

Exhibitions

  • 1903: Mortimer Menpes Collection of Etchings, Drypoints and Lithographs, by J. McNeill Whistler, E. Brown & Phillips, Leicester Galleries, London, 1903 (cat. no. 209) as 'Wash drawing of St Paul's / Study for an etched plate'.

Last updated: 10th May 2021 by Margaret