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

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M.1549
Butterfly for 'Noblesse abuse!'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Accession Number: Manuscript Collection MS-4481
Medium: pen, black ink and blue crayon
Support: white wove paper
Size: 311 x 197 mm (12 1/4 x 7 3/4")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Noblesse abuse'

Butterfly for 'Noblesse abuse!'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1549) as "Butterfly for ‘Noblesse abuse!’ ".

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, p. i.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret