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

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M.1574
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Whistler 292 f.77
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume
Size: 6 1/16 x 5 11/16" (155 x 145 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'Resumé / Reduced to about size of/ present butterfly', and in unknown hands 'Top/ (8)/ Red: to about one third as 3 to 1'; v.: '17 x 14' in an unknown hand
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Butterfly

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: 9th March 2021 by Margaret