Benjamin Hazard Field (1814—1893), New York, 1876—1893[Graham Gallery, New York, 1961]Private collection, 1961 - 1965[Graham Gallery, New York, 1965 — 1966]John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, New York, 1966—1979FAMSF, 1979.7.64

New York, Century Association, December 1875, exh. no. 15 (asThe Conch Shell)New York, Kurtz Gallery, Artists Fund Society, Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, 1876Philadelphia, United States Centennial Commission, Art Gallery, International Exhibition, 1876, exh. no. 72 (as What the Sea Says)Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878, exh. no. 70 (as Ce que disent les coquillages)New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Collection of Paintings and Sculpture in the West Galleries and the Grand Hall, 1881, exh. no. 41 (as What the Shell is Saying)FAMSF, Eastman Johnson: Seven Paintings by the Highly Regarded NineteenthCentury American Artist, 1979, no publ.