Maunder's Fish Shop, Chelsea

1890, printed in 1903

James Abbott McNeill Whistler , Artist Frederick Goulding , Printer

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About the Artwork

Title Maunder's Fish Shop, Chelsea

Artwork Date 1890, printed in 1903

Makers James Abbott McNeill Whistler (Artist) American, 1834 - 1903 Frederick Goulding (Printer) English, 1842 - 1909

Medium Lithograph printed in black ink on cream laid paper

Dimensions Image: 7 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (19.7 × 17.5 cm) Sheet: 10 1/2 × 8 1/4 inches (26.7 × 21 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Julius Haass

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 30.350

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Signed Signed, on stone, center of image: [Whistler's butterfly device]

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: Way 28 | MK 32814 Inscribed, lower center: 1W Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left corner: A 95559 (dealer's inventory number) Inscribed, lower right corner: Maunder's Fish Shop - Chelsea | W 28

Marks Watermark, center left edge: Strasbourg Lily Stamp, in brown, lower left, verso: RBP in a circle, indicating that it was printed at the direction of Whistler's executor, his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) after Whistler's death. (Lugt 405)

Provenance

Rosalind Birnie Philip (London, England);
1930, (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA);
1930-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Bulletin of the DIA 12, 4 (1931): pp. 41-43.

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Maunder's Fish Shop, Chelsea, 1890, printed in 1903, lithograph printed in black ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Julius Haass, 30.350.

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