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

 

M.0879
Butterfly for the private view of Venice Etchings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1883
Collection: New York Public Library
Accession Number: n/a
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: white laid paper, watermark of crown over hunting horn, and 'CHARTA ASPERA / L & S'
Size: 8 11/16 x 6 3/4" (223 x 173 mm)
Signature: butterfly signature on letter
Inscription: letter including text, 'I really had some 80 or 100 little butterflies made of white and yellow satin - most exquisite - wonderful little bodies of plush - with the crisp silk wings and the silver barbed sting!'

Butterfly for the private view of Venice Etchings

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 879) as 'Butterfly for the private view of Venice Etchings'.

Websites

  • The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, 1855-1903, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp, 2003-2004, University of Glasgow, website, GUW #11026.

Last updated: 20th February 2021 by Margaret