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

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YMSM 529
Grey Clothes Shop

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1895/1900
Collection: Whereabouts Unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: oil
Support: unknown
Size: unknown
Signature: unknown
Inscription: unknown
Frame: unknown
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Grey Clothes Shop

Titles

Only one title has been suggested:

  • ‘Grey clothes shop’ (1901, R. Birnie Philip). 1
  • 'Grey Clothes Shop' (1980, YMSM). 2

Description

It was described by Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) as a ‘Grey clothes shop’. 3

Site

Unknown.

However, it was probably a site in Chelsea, or in the East End of London.

Old Clothes Shop, Houndsditch, The Hunterian
Old Clothes Shop, Houndsditch, The Hunterian

Old Clothes Shop, Houndsditch [YMSM 371] shows a shop in the East End, the centre of the clothing trade. However, it is definitely not finished, and it is not particularly grey.

Notes:

1: GUL BP II Ledger c, pp. 7-8.

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 529).

3: 16 February 1901, GUL BP II Ledger c, pp. 7-8

Last updated: 1st November 2019 by Margaret