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

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M.1573
r.: and v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: Pennell Collection
Medium: pencil, pen and dark brown ink
Support: white card
Size: 4 7/16 x 3 9/16" (113 x 91 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'size smallest in marginal notes in Gentle Art -', and, in unknown hands, 'Heinemann/ Today"/ 31480/ "- ¼ "-/'

r.: and v.: Butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1573) as 'r.: and v.: Butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, pp. iii, 79.

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