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

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Four butterflies

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                    Four butterflies, Library of Congress
Four butterflies, Library of Congress

Designs for Whistler 1890 [more] .

One butterfly was used on p. 65, marking the end of the "Painter-Etcher" dispute of 1881, and another butterfly, on p.165, as signature for a letter deriding the idea of a 'National Art Exhibition' involving Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) (The World, 17 November 1888.)

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