Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1890 Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Accession Number: 57.585.2 Medium: pencil Support: off-white paper Size: 4 5/8 x 5" (117 x 128 mm) Signature: butterfly Inscription: none
A butterfly remotely based on Whistler's monogram 'JW', with the addition of a barbed tail curving to upper right. It was designed for Whistler 1890 [more].
