Provenance

• 1890: probably sent by Whistler to William Heinemann (1863-1920) , London publisher.
• By 1905: owned by Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt (1871-1942) .

Exhibitions

• 1905: Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the late James McNeill Whistler, First President of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, New Gallery, Regent Street, London, 1905 (cat. no. 180) as 'Studies in lead pencil for Butterflies used in the artist's publications'.