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

 

M.1588
The Rows, Chester

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1900
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Accession Number: F1904.89
Medium: pencil and brown ink
Support: white wove
Size: 86 x 140 mm (3 3/8 x 5 9/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

The Rows, Chester

Provenance

  • 1904: bought from Obach, London art dealers, by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919) , Detroit;
  • 1919: bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

By the terms of Freer's will, this work cannot be lent to another venue.

Last updated: 3rd March 2021 by Margaret