Provenance

• 1900: possibly 'Revue navale à Southampton' sold at auction in Paris on 24 March 1900, 950 fr. 1

No other provenance is known.

Exhibitions

• 1887: Winter Exhibition, Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1887-1888 (cat. no. 132) as 'Grey and silver, Docks, Southampton'.

The Illustrated London News, 10 December 1887, compared Blue and Silver: Portsmouth [M.1138] with this watercolour, and suggested that 'at the former spot he was but half awake and at the latter already half asleep on that eventful but tiring day.'