Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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M.1551
Butterfly for 'Noblesse abuse!'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Whistler 292 f.17
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume of 'Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly'
Size: 4 5/16 x 4 3/4" (110 x 120 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'To this/ scale from/ top to toe', and, in unknown hands, 'top' and 'red 2 3/8 to 5/8'; v.: '15 x 13/ 64906' in unknown hands
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Butterfly for 'Noblesse abuse!'

Provenance

  • 1921: bought from W. Brown, 17 Filmer Road, Fulham, London, by Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930).
  • Date unknown: bought from Sherman Lurie, New York, by Hans Peter Kraus (1907-1988), New York bookseller;
  • 1978: bought from H. P. Kraus by the University of Glasgow.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 17th April 2019 by Margaret