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

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M.1575
Three Butterflies

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898/99
Collection: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Accession Number:
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: off-white wove paper
Size: 311 x 199 mm (12 1/4" x 7 13/16")
Signature: one of the three butterflies is Whistler’s signature
Inscription: ‘Envoi // … As a man wipeth a dish – wiping it / and turning it upside down’

Three Butterflies

Provenance

  • Date unknown: acquired by Thomas Edward Hanley (1893-1969), Bradford, Pennsylvania;
  • 1957: acquired as part of the T. E. Hanley Collection by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret