The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler

M.1124
Interior of the British Artists exhibition

Interior of the British Artists exhibition

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1886/1887
Collection: Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Accession Number: 1753
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream laid paper, watermark 'HOLYROOD', with embossed head and 'INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF/ BRITISH ARTISTS/ Suffolk Street/ Pall Mall East, SW./ 188...',
Size: 7 15/16 x 4 15/16" (201 x 126 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

Date

Interior of the British Artists exhibition dates from 1886/1887. It shows the velarium hanging the Suffolk Street galleries during the Winter Exhibition, Society of British Artists, London, 1886.

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art
Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art

It is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1124).

Images

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art
Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute
Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute

Subject

Site

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art
Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art

Whistler sat in one of the small southern galleries, looking towards the information desk in the large central room in the Suffolk Street Galleries of the Society of British Artists.

Technique

Conservation History

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art
Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute Of Art

Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute
Interior of the British Artists exhibition, Courtauld Institute

Interior of the British Artists exhibition m1123 and Interior of the British Artists exhibition m1124 are two halves of the same sheet of folded notepaper.

History

Provenance

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Bibliography

Catalogues Raisonnés

Catalogues 1906-Present

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