The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler
M.0488
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (a) chairs and door, plates on wall; (b) vase in arched recess
Date
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (a) chairs and door, plates on wall,
British Museum
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (a) chairs and door, plates on wall; (b) vase in arched recess date from between 1873 and 1874.
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (b) vase in arched recess, British
Museum
The drawings are fully catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 488).
Images
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (a) chairs and door, plates on wall,
British Museum
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (b) vase in arched recess, British
Museum
Subject
Site
Aubrey House, the home of William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916) in Kensington, London.
Technique
Technique
Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (b) vase in arched recess, British Museum
See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 488).
Conservation History
The drawings were put into an album.
History
Provenance
- 1870s: given to Rachel Agnes Lucas (Mrs W. C. Alexander) (1837-1900), whose initials are on the sheet of paper, or to her husband, William Cleverly Alexander (1840-1916);
- 1916: bequeathed to Rachel Alexander (1875-1964) and Jean Ingelow Alexander (1877-1972);
- 1958: given to the British Museum.
Exhibitions
No exhibition in Whistler's lifetime is recorded.
Bibliography
Catalogues Raisonnés
- MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 488) as 'Designs for the dining-room at Aubrey House: (a) chairs and door, plates on wall; (b) vase in arched recess'.