Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1882 Collection: Humanities Research Centre, Austin, TX Accession Number: 65.356 Medium: pen and brown ink Support: white laid paper with mourning edging, watermark 'ALLEN & SONS [?] SUPER FINE', f.s. Size: 6 15/16 x 4 5/16" (176 x 110 mm) Signature: butterfly Inscription: r.: 'Original drawing by J. McNeill Whistler / signed', in unknown hand; v.: 'Upper Grove / l4 March / 82' and coded notes, in unknown hands
MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 871) as 'Iris'.