Anonymous Photographers

Three photographs of James McNeill Whistler, comprising: Whistler with Cape and Cane, platinum print, mounted, signed in ink by Whistler and with his butterfly monogram on the mount; and Whistler with Mortimer Menpes and William Merritt Chase, platinum print, mounted, two of the subjects identified in an unidentified hand in ink on the mount; and a boudoir-sized studio portrait of Whistler by H. S. MENDELSSOHN, albumen print, mounted, the photographer’s credit on the mount and reverse, all c. 1885; together with a view of Cheyne Walk, Battersea Bridge Pier, albumen print, mounted, titled in an unidentified hand in ink on the mount (4 photographs)

Whistler with Cape and Cane is contained in a wooden step frame painted white, originally from The Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, and possibly used for memorial exhibitions of Whistler's work c. 1904-06.

literature
Whistler, Menpes and Chase: Mortimer Menpes, Whistler as I Knew Him, 1904, opposite pg. 152 (another print)

Other photographs of Whistler, Menpes and Chase, presumably taken the same day, are in the collection of the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton New York (The William Merrit Chase Archives).  See Ronald G. Pisano, A Leading Spirit in American Art: William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916, pp. 77 and 80.