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

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Venice etchings

Provenance

  • 1887/1888: given to Mary Gladys Storey (1886-1978), the daughter of George Adolphus Storey, RA (1834-1919);
  • 1978: passed to her nephew, Charles Monteith;
  • 1980: sold in August through Peter Rose to Abbott and Holder, London art dealers;
  • 1987: sold to a private collector.

Gladys Storey obtained drawings by her father and his friends, including Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911), George Clausen (1852-1944), Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), and William Powell Frith (1819-1909), and put them in an album. Some were done specially for the album but Whistler's clearly was not.

Exhibitions


                    Venice etchings, private collection
Venice etchings, private collection

The sketches are very rough, and were never exhibited, but could have been used in the selection of the first set of Venice etchings, or for their first exhition, Etchings & Drypoints - Venice. Second Series, Fine Art Society, London, 1883.

Last updated: 21st February 2021 by Margaret