Red and Brown-Hoxton
date: label: Date
content: 1885-1886
name: label: Artist
content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
notes: label: Description
content: Facade of a row of three-storied houses and shop fronts; many small figures in the foreground; signed with the butterfly at upper right.
label: Signatures
content: Red butterfly in upper right quadrant
label: Inscriptions
content: Verso: Stair Landing (unknown hand)
label: Paper/Support
content: On hot-pressed, wove paper mounted overall to board.
label: Provenance
content: To 1904
label: Provenance
content: John James Cowan (1846-1936), Edinburgh, Scotland, to 1904 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1904 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from John James Cowan, through William Marchant and Co, London, in June 1904 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Paintings, pg. 18, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] 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: Whistler in Watercolor (May 18 to November 3, 2019)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler's Neighborhood: Impressions of a Changing London (September 8, 2012 to September 8, 2013)
label: Exhibition History
content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and Modern Life (May 11, 1984 to December 16, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: Whistler Water Colors (January 7, 1924 to April 4, 1930)
label: Exhibition History
content: 78th Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (Spring or Autumn of 1904)
label: Exhibition History
content: Oil Paintings, Water Colors, Pastels and Drawings: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Mr. J. McNeill Whistler (February 23 to March 22, 1904)
label: Exhibition History
content: Pictures, Drawings, Bronzes, Pottery, Antique Furniture, Decorative Metal Work (1898)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (1896)
label: Exhibition History
content: "Notes"—"Harmonies"—"Nocturnes" (May 1886)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: John James Cowan (1846-1936) (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: mounting
label: Topic
content: bone black
label: Topic
content: cerulean blue
label: Topic
content: Prussian blue
label: Topic
content: burnt sienna
label: Topic
content: raw sienna
label: Topic
content: iron oxide red
label: Topic
content: vermilion
label: Topic
content: zinc white
label: Topic
content: strontium chromate
label: Topic
content: Mars pigment
label: Topic
content: yellow ocher
label: Topic
content: madder
label: Topic
content: cadmium sulfide
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: store front
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
label: Related Online Resources
content: Whistler in Watercolor
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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: F1904.79a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 12.5 x 21 cm (4 15/16 x 8 1/4 in)