Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1898 Collection: Whereabouts unknown Accession Number: none Medium: pencil, pen and dark brown ink Support: off-white wove paper laid down Size: 197 x 152 mm (7 3/4 x 6") Signature: unsigned Inscription: recto inscribed ‘For l’Envoie / Butterfly about same size as present trial one – quite as small – perhaps a little smaller’ ['quite' is underlined], and, in an unknown hand, ‘4 3/4 to 1 1/2 [arrow] 1’, ‘top’, ‘(5)’; verso inscribed in unknown hand ‘black [bing] PP / 2nd margin / Lay only [&] show [&] mgin / [2] and 10 / [Devonald/Deverald] / R’
