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

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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

Composition

Butterfly for a valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery, Fogg Art Museum
Butterfly for a valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery, Fogg Art Museum

This was a design for Whistler's monogram, a butterfly, to be embroidered on the valance for the rooms of Messrs Dowdeswell for Whistler's exhibition, 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884.

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