Provenance

• 1848/1849: given to Anna Matilda Whistler (1804-1881) ;
• In or before 1881: passed to her younger son, Whistler's brother William McNeill Whistler (1836-1900) ;
• 1900: bequeathed to his wife, Helen ('Nellie') Euphrosyne Whistler (1849-1917) ;
• 1908/1917: given to, or inherited by, Whistler's great-nephew, Joseph Whistler Revillon (1886-1955) ;
• 1955: bequeathed by J. W. Revillon to the University of Glasgow.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 21).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.