Provenance

• 1857/1858: given to Annie Harriet Haden (1848-1937) ;
• After 1905: several drawings owned by Annie Haden (Mrs Thynne), probably including this, were dispersed at an unknown date.
• Date unknown: according to Christie's, several drawings were bought in Paris by a collector, passed to his daughter, who lived in South America, came into the possession of a gallery in South America and were sold when it closed down.
• 1972: collection of Mrs M. Rossink, sold at auction, Christie's, London, 19 December 1972 (lot 89, repr.) bought by I. D. Gale, art dealer, and sold to a private collector.

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 207) as 'A frame of ten early pencil sketches.'