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

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M.1586
Chelsea Rags

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA
Accession Number: 1975.1
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 225 x 298 mm (8 7/8 x 11 3/4")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: v.: 'Old Clothes Shop / Pen sketch by J. McNeill Whistler / (from the Collection of the artist’s Executrix)', written by Harold Wright of Colnaghi’s

Chelsea Rags

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1586) as 'Chelsea Rags'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

  • Eitner, Lorenz (intro.) and Betsy G. Fryberger, Whistler: Themes and Variations, Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, 1978 (cat. no. 47).
  • Tedeschi, Martha, and Britt Salvesen, Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, Chicago, 1998 repr. p. 46.

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