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English: Title: Trafalgar Square Abstract/medium: 1 drawing : graphite ; sheet 22.4 x 17.7 cm.
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Author Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, artist
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Drawings (Master) collection in the Library of Congress
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  • Title from item.
  • 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.
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drawings (master) · prints and photographs division
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trafalgar square (london, england) · clippings · graphite drawings · pencil works · satires (visual works)
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england
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Trafalgar Square (London, England)

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