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

 

M.0958
Butterfly for a valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1884
Collection: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Accession Number: 2005.260
Medium: pencil and watercolour
Support: beige laid paper
Size: 2 13/16 x 2 15/16" (72 x 75 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: originally inscribed 'This drawing was in Alexr Jno. Taylor's / Pocket Book for embroidery on Mantel Board Valances in Dowdeswell Galleries New Bond St. / by J. McNeil (sic.) Whistler Esq. for his/ Exhibition in Flesh Colour and Grey.'

Butterfly for a valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 958) as 'r.: Butterfly for a valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery; v.: curtain'.

Catalogues 1906-Present

EXHIBITION:

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., Notes, Harmonies, & Nocturnes: Small Works by James McNeill Whistler, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 1984 (cat. no. 6), repr.
  • Whistler and Godwin, The Fine Art Society, London, 2001 (cat. no. 146).

SALE:

  • Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1974 (lot 50).

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Last updated: 26th February 2021 by Margaret