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

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M.1262
r. and v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1892
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685421
Medium: r.: pen and dark brown ink; v.: pen and purple ink
Support: off-white card, with printed butterfly on small rectangle, 25 x 22 mm (1 x 7/8") of paper cut from a book (Whistler 1890), stuck to it
Size: 5 11/16-5 13/16 x 4 5/16" (145-148 x 109 mm)
Signature: r. and v.: butterfly
Inscription: 'Top No 2/ Page 292/ size'

r. and v.: Butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1262) as 'r. and v.: Butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. i.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd edition, London and New York, 1892, repr. p. 292.

Websites

  • Library of Congress website at https://www.loc.gov.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret