JAMES ABBOT MCNEILL WHISTLER (BRITISH 1834-19... Lot n° 26

MAUNDERS FISH SHOP, CHELSEA, 1890 signed with the artist's butterfly on tab below etching on laid paper 13.5 x 21.5cm; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2in 33 x 40cm; 13 x 15 3/4in (framed) Property of a Lady, London Provenance Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, London A gift to the present owner from her stepfather in the late 1990s Literature Edward G. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, New York, 1910, no. 264 Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 267 (on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk) Elizabeth Maunder's fish shop at 72 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea was demolished around 1892. Whistler later lived in a house on the site which was subsequently destroyed in the Second World War. This is one of two works Whistler produced which portrayed the fish shop. A contemporary account of Whistler’s work describes this etching as: 'one of Mr Whistler’s most brilliant creations. It represents a group of old houses at Chelsea, and is an excellent arrangement in black and white.'