Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1881, 1886/1888 Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow Accession Number: GLAHA 46026 Medium: chalk and pastel Support: brown wove paper laid down on card Size: 11 x 5 9/16" (280 x 141 mm) Signature: butterfly Inscription: 'No. 40y' and 'No 37y' in unknown hands
Although it was suggested that Rose and Silver dates from the late 1860s, it was signed later, around 1880/1881, and probably reworked for exhibition in the mid- to late-1880s. 1
Notes:
1: See MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 342).