Provenance

• 1890: probably sent by Whistler to William Heinemann (1863-1920) , London publisher.
• By 1905: owned by Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt (1871-1942) .
• Date unknown: possibly with James Bain, bookseller.
• 1954: bought from E. Matthews, art dealer, Bishops Stortford, by The Hunterian.

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. 179) repr. f.p. 19.