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

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1574) as 'Butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, p. 79.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret