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

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: 19th March 2021 by Margaret