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

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M.1265
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1892
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685422
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: off-white card, with printed butterfly on small rectangle of paper, 18 x 25 mm (11/16 x 1"), cut from book (Whistler 1890) stuck to it
Size: 5 1/2-5 5/8 x 5 1/4-5 3/8" (140-143 x 133-136 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Top/ Page 320./ size. /No. [5, crossed out] 4.' and 'No. 5 -'

Butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • 18 x 25 mm (11/16 x 1")18 x 25 mm (11/16 x 1")MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1265) as 'Butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 69.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd edition, London and New York, 1892, repr. p. 328.

Websites

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

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret