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

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M.1556
r.: Butterfly and tricolour flag; v.: Two butterflies and part of a third

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: MS Whistler 292 ff. 47-8
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume
Size: 5 1/2 x 7 7/8" (140 x 201 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: r.: 'Argument - / Try this one too', and in unknown hands 'top / (3) / make with other'; v.: '64899 / 16 ½ x 14' in unknown hands

r.: Butterfly and tricolour flag; v.: Two butterflies and part of a third

Provenance

  • 1921: bought from W. Brown, 17 Filmer Road, Fulham, London, by Pickford Robert Waller (1849-1930) .
  • Date unknown: bought from Sherman Lurie, New York, by Hans Peter Kraus (1907-1988), New York bookseller;
  • 1978: bought from H. P. Kraus by the University of Glasgow.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

It was not, as far as is known, exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 9th April 2019 by Margaret