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

 

M.1560
Butterfly and tricolour flag

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler 292 ff. 45-6
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume of 'Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly'
Size: 6 3/16 x 7 5/16" (157 x 202 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: ' "Argument"/ Reduced Butterfly/ about this size across- or little/ smaller' and in unknown hands 'top// 3 3/4 to 1 3/4 // 4 // Break up/ this wing a little/ through the/ centre thus'; v.: '4 inch' four times, and '64946' in unknown hand

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