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

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M.1263
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1892
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685428
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream card, with printed butterfly on small square of paper cut from a book (Whistler 1890, p. 105) stuck to it
Size: 5 1/6 x 7 1/4" (123-127 x 182 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Top/ page 309./ size / No. 3', and in an unknown hand '¼'

Butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1263) as 'Butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, repr. p. 105.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd edition, London and New York, 1892, repr. p. 307.

Catalogues 1855-1905

  • Nocturnes, Marines & Chevalet Pieces, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892 (cat. no. 15).

Websites

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

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret