Provenance

• 1852: drawn in a book belonging to Thomas Wilson (1832-1901) ;
• 1901: passed by family descent to a private owner;
• 1924: offered for sale through Switzler, Ringer, Switzer and Shackleford, Omaha, Nebraska, to Joseph Pennell (1860-1926).
• By 1972: private collector, Long Island;
• 1972: bought by the United States Military Academy, West Point on 12 July 1972, with a grant from the West Point Fund.

For further details see MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 112).

Exhibitions

As far as is known, it was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.