The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

Date

Maunder's fish shop dates from about 1899.

Maunder's fish shop, Private collection

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1587).

Images

Subject

Site

Maunder's fish shop, private collection

Maunder’s Fish Shop, Chelsea, 1890, lithograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 17.3.180

Maunder’s fish shop, 72 Cheyne Walk, London. Whistler's etching Little Maunder's [273], dates from 1887, and his lithograph of the same subject, Maunder's Fish Shop, Chelsea c037, from 1890.

Technique

Technique

Maunder's fish shop, private collection

See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1587).

History

Provenance

• 1903: in Whistler's studio at his death and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
• 1957: sold to Colnaghi's, London art dealers, 22 October;
• 1957: bought by Edward Brian Seago (1910-1974), Norfolk, 3 December;
• 1974: bequeathed to Peter Seymour (fl. 1952), Norfolk, who bequeathed it to a private owner.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1587) as 'Maunder's fish shop'.
• Spink, Nesta R., Harriet K. Stratis, and Martha Tedeschi, The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, (gen. eds, Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi), 2 vols., Chicago, 1998 (lithograph, cat. no. 37).

Books on Whistler

• Way, Thomas Robert, Mr Whistler's Lithographs: the Catalogue, London, 1896 (cat. no. 28).

Websites

• Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, online website. (etching, cat. no. 273).