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Dimensions: measurements 11 by 7 in. alternate measurements (27.9 by 17.8 cm)

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Provenance: Christopher Norris, London (sold: Sotheby's, London, November 21, 1973, lot 8)
W. Darby, London (acquired at the above sale)
Somerville & Simpson, London
Acquired from the above

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Exhibited: London, T. Agnew & Sons; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery; Glasgow, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Whistler, The Graphic Work: Amsterdam, Liverpool, London, Venice, July-November 1976
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Notes, Harmonies, Nocturnes, November-December 1984
Chicago, Illinois, Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, June-August 1998, no 40.

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Literature: Thomas R. Way, Memories of James McNeill Whistler, The Artist, London, 1912, p. 19
Carole McNamara and John Siewert, Whistler: Prosaic Views, Poetic Vision, New York, 1994, illustration of finished lithograph p. 80
Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1995, pp. 256-7, illustrated

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Notes: Executed in 1878.
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF CATHERINE GAMBLE CURRAN
In 1878, Whistler was asked to create two lithographs for the Piccadilly magazine and "he forthwith made two studies of Old Battersea Bridge on brown paper, and brought them to the Wellington Street office, and there and then drew them on a fresh stone. 'The Long Bridge' and 'The Tall Bridge' were at once printed" (Thomas R. Way quoted in James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1995, pp. 256).