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

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M.1264
r.: Butterfly; v.: Part of a butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1892
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685423
Medium: r.: pen and black ink; v.: pen and purple ink
Support: off-white card with printed butterfly on small rectangle stuck to it, cut from a rejected proof from a book (Whistler 1890), p. 242
Size: 5 1/16-5 1/14 x 5 3/8-5 1/2" (129-133 x 136-140 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Top/ Page 32l/ Size or a little smaller/ [crossed out: No. 4.] No. 5.', and, in an unknown hand, '3/16'

r.: Butterfly; v.: Part of a butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1264) as 'r.: Butterfly; v.: Part of a butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd edition, London and New York, 1892, repr. p. 321.

Websites

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

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret