St. James's Street
date: label: Date
content: 1878
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Edition/State
content: 2, 1
label: Label
content: Whistler declared bankruptcy following a series of personal and professional difficulties, including quarrels with his patron Frederick Leyland over the Peacock Room, expenses related to his new home, and the cost of an ongoing lawsuit against art critic John Ruskin. Whistler drew this bird’s-eye view of St. James Street—home to exclusive gentlemen’s clubs—expressly to raise funds. The British weekly magazine Vanity Fair commissioned and reproduced the image in its July 2, 1878, issue. By September, Whistler would be in Venice, working on a much larger commission from the Fine Art Society.
label: Label
content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonn&‌eacute;," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G178 state 2 of 4.
label: Provenance
content: Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (circa 1829-1891), London [1]
label: Provenance
content: To 1892
label: Provenance
content: Frederick Keppel and Co., London, England, and New York to 1892 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1892 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Frederick Keppel and Co. in 1892 [3]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Hutchinson Collection stamp in margin (see Curatorial Remarks in the object record).
label: Provenance
content: [2] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [3] See note 2.
label: Provenance
content: [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change (November 18, 2023 to May 4, 2024)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Prints, East Corridor (January 5, 1944 to January 8, 1947)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (April 4, 1930 to January 20, 1944)
label: Exhibition History
content: Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler (March 23, 1925 to March 24, 1930)
label: Exhibition History
content: Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson (ca. 1829-1891)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Frederick Keppel and Co. (1868-1940) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: etching (printing process)
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: store front
label: Topic
content: city
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1892.20
objectType: label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching; ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 27.8 x 17.6 cm (10 15/16 x 6 15/16 in)