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

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M.1258
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 33.283
Medium: graphite pencil
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 7 1/2 x 5" (192 x 128 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'WSB' (collector's mark of W. S. Brewster), and '7/16' upside down in an unknown hand; v.: '33.283' and 'oc 7' in unknown hands

Butterfly

Composition

Butterfly, Art Institute of Chicago
Butterfly, Art Institute of Chicago

Designed for Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890. It is the signature to 'The Habit of Second Natures', a letter to Truth, 2 January1890 on plagiarism.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret