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

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Butterfly

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                    Butterfly, Freer Gallery of Art
Butterfly, Freer Gallery of Art

Designed for Whistler 1890 [more] . The butterfly, dancing on one wing tip, is the signature to 'Another Poacher in the Chelsea Preserves', a letter to Atlas, The World, 26 December 1888, concerning Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938).

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