The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Battersea dates from 1876/1878. It is dated from the signature.

Battersea, British Museum

The drawing is fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 588).

Images

Subject

Site

Battersea, British Museum

The view of Battersea, looking across the river Thames from Chelsea, London.

Technique

Technique

Battersea, British Museum

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 588).

History

Provenance

• By 1905: owned by William Eden (1849-1915);
• 1915-1918: estate of Sir William Eden;
• 1918: sold at auction, Christie's, London, 1 March 1918 (lot 132) as 'The Thames at Battersea', bought by Wallis, London dealers;
• 1920: presented by Miss Hague to the British Museum.

Exhibitions

• 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. 67) as 'Battersea'.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 588) as 'Battersea'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• MacDonald, Margaret, and Patricia de Montfort, An American in London: Whistler and the Thames, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Addison Gallery of American Art, Freer Gallery of Art, 2013-2014 (cat. no. 48).