Provenance

• By 1905: owned by Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt (1871-1942), Kendal, Cumbria;
• 1919: possibly sold with The Tall Bridge [M.0701] at Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1919 (lot 169) as 'pencil' (sic) studies for Lithographic reproduction, together with impressions of the lithographs, and bought by Colnaghi, London dealers;
• 1920: possibly sold by Colnaghi's as "Study for the etching 'Putney Bridge' '' to Arthur H. Hahlo (fl. 1912-1919), New York, 19 April 1920.
• Date unknown: owned by Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935);
• 1935: 'A study for Lithotint [of Battersea Bridge]' passed to his widow, Katherine Geddes Benedict (1879-1961), and daughter, Josephine Katherine Benedict, Mrs James Douglass Sharpe (ca 1918-1946);
• 1962: sold at auction, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1962 (lot 65) and bought by Julius H. Weitzner (1896-1986), London dealer.
• Date unknown: bought from A. H. Hahlo & Co., New York dealers, by Davis & Long, New York dealers;
• Before 1984: bought by Carter Burden, Jr (1941-1996) who gave it to his father, Shirley Carter Burden, Sr (1908-1989), New York;
• 1989: estate of Shirley Carter Burden, Sr.

The early and recent history of both Old Battersea Bridge [M.0700] and The Tall Bridge [M.0701] is difficult to disentangle.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 700).

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. 206) as 'Old Battersea Bridge'.