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

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A Shop

Titles

Possible titles include:

  • 'Chelsea Children' (n.d., anon.) 1
  • 'A Shop' (1980, YMSM). 2
  • 'A Chelsea Shop' (2015, Terra Foundation). 3

'A Shop' is the preferred title, since the site has not been identified.

Description

A Shop, Art Institute of Chicago
A Shop, Art Institute of Chicago

A street scene in horizontal format. At left is a small shop, with two small children peering into the many-paned window at the good within. At right a woman in a white apron stands in a passageway leading under the houses to another street.

Site

Possibly painted in Chelsea, London, ca 1890, or in Lyme Regis, between September and November 1895.

Notes:

1: Inscription on the verso in an unknown hand reading: 'Chelsea Children by James McNeill Whistler'.

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 448).

3: Terra Collection website at http://collection.terraamericanart.org/

Last updated: 5th December 2020 by Margaret