Trafalgar Square,London,England,Admiral Nelson,St Martins Church Protestant,1897

Title: Trafalgar Square
Other Title: Catalogue raisonné title: Admiral Nelson--'boarded at last!'
Creator(s): Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist
Date Created/Published: [1897]
Notes:
Signed on back with butterfly.
Text below drawing: Trafalgar square 'The finest (site/sight) in Europe'!!! Admiral Nelson 'Boarded at last'! 'England expects every man to be ridiculous!' o St. Martins Church Protestant House of the Lord to let Apply Money changers Vestry. Text above drawing: Asseyons nous dessus, et que ça finess! Asseyons nous dessus et n'en parlon plus! London's turn! [The constructions annotated on 'signs'] [left] Stevens Builders [center] Whiteley 1000000 Seats Apply [right] Maple Seats.
Beige laid paper, folded horizontally and vertically at center with black mourning edges; watermark of script B in a shield.
On back in pencil, in artist's hand: I am sending this over to Paris! Possibly Wobbles may see it! Be sure you dine here tomorrow! Eight o'clock [signed with butterfly] Saturday night - You might wire a line[?] to Fitzroy Street in the morning. [In another hand]: June 97.
On back: Black stamp of the L.C. Division of Prints (Lugt 677).
Matted with drawing: Clipping from the Daily Chronicle, Friday, June 18, 1897, approximately reproducing this drawing, with butterfly signature, captioned: The above amusing sketch is Mr. Whistler's contribution to the 'Great Jubilee Stand' problem.
'Wobbles' was Charles Whibley, an American writer married to Whistler's sister-in-law. The celebration, for which Trafalgar Square was being transformed was Queen Victoria's sixth Jubilee.
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1507 (p. 540-41)
Gift; E.R. & J. Pennell; 1917.
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.
Subjects:
Trafalgar Square (London, England)--1890-1900.
Clippings--1890-1900.
Graphite drawings--1890-1900.
Pencil works--1890-1900.
Satires (Visual works)--1890-1900.
Bookmark /2006685410/
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