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M.1556
r.: Butterfly and tricolour flag; v.: Two butterflies and part of a third

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler 292 ff. 47-8
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume
Size: 5 1/2 x 7 7/8" (140 x 201 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: r.: 'Argument - / Try this one too', and in unknown hands 'top / (3) / make with other'; v.: '64899 / 16 ½ x 14' in unknown hands

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r.: Butterfly and tricolour flag, Glasgow University Library

v.: Two butterflies and part of a third, Glasgow University Library

Butterfly and tricolour flag in Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, p. viii, Glasgow University Library

Last updated: 9th April 2019 by Margaret