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

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M.1590
A house at Flushing

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899/1900
Collection: Collection of Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis
Accession Number: none
Medium: watercolour
Support: cream paper, laid down on board
Size: 145 x 245 mm (5 11/16 x 9 5/8")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: v.: ‘At Flushing / after 1896’ by Harold Wright
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A house at Flushing

Provenance

  • 1903: in Whistler's studio in 1903 and bequeathed to Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958);
  • 1958: bequeathed to the University of Glasgow;
  • 1968: this and other works were exchanged for Copy after Ingres's 'Roger délivrant Angélique' [YMSM 011] with Ira Spanierman (n/a), New York art dealer;
  • 1968 or after: sold by Spanierman to Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis, New York.

See further details in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1594).

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime, as far as is known.

Last updated: 25th February 2021 by Margaret