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

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M.1250
r. and v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: ND 237/W6A2/1899a/P&P/Pennell
Medium: r.: pencil, v.: pencil, with white paint
Support: cream card, stuck in before the title page of a copy of 'The Baronet and the Butterfly' (Whistler 1899)
Size: 3 9/16 x 5" (89 x 128 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

r. and v.: Butterfly

Composition

r.: Butterfly, Library of Congress
r.: Butterfly, Library of Congress

Designed for Whistler 1890 [more] . The butterfly on the recto was used in The Gentle Art of Making Enemies as the final butterfly in the catalogue of Venice etchings and drypoints (originally published in 1881).

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret