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

 

M.1586
Chelsea Rags

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA
Accession Number: 1975.1
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 225 x 298 mm (8 7/8 x 11 3/4")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: v.: 'Old Clothes Shop / Pen sketch by J. McNeill Whistler / (from the Collection of the artist’s Executrix)', written by Harold Wright of Colnaghi’s

Chelsea Rags

Provenance

  • 1903: said to have been in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) ;
  • 1950s: said to have been sold by Miss Philip to Colnaghi's, London dealers.
  • Date unknown: owned by R. E. Lewis (fl. 1952) , art dealer, San Francisco.
  • 1975: gift of the Committee for Art to Stanford University Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 7th March 2021 by Margaret