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

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Butterfly for a valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery

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                    Butterfly for a valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery, Fogg Art Museum
Butterfly for a valance at Dowdeswell's Gallery, Fogg Art Museum

This was a design for Whistler's monogram, a butterfly, to be embroidered on the valance for the rooms of Messrs Dowdeswell for Whistler's exhibition, 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884.

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