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

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M.1552
r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Whistler 292 f.23-4
Medium: r.: pencil, pen and black ink; v: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume of 'Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly'
Size: 3 7/16 x 5 7/8" (88 x 149 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'under Shameless/ Friendship' and in unknown hands 'Top / Reduced to about one third [crossed out]/ reduce 3 to 1' [crossed out]; v.: '14 ½ x 14/ 64988' in unknown hands
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r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterflies

r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterflies were drawn in 1899 as illustrations for Whistler 1899 (F)[more].

r.: Butterfly, Glasgow University Library
r.: Butterfly, Glasgow University Library
v.: Butterflies, Glasgow University Library
v.: Butterflies, Glasgow University Library

The sheet catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1552).

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