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

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M.1577
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Sp Coll Whistler 292, f.5
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: buff wove paper, bound into a volume
Size: 124 x 124 mm (4 7/8 x 4 7/8")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: r.: ‘to this scale / from top / of antenna’ and in unknown hands ‘top’ and ‘red 1/3 to 5/8’; v.: ‘16 3 13 / 64906’ in unknown hands

Butterfly

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 March 2021 by Margaret