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.'