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

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M.1261
r. and v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890/1892
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: 2006685421
Medium: r.: pen and black ink; v.: pen and purple ink
Support: off-white card, with printed butterfly on small rectangle, 22 x 18 mm (7/8 x 11/16") of tan paper cut from a book (Whistler 1890) stuck to it
Size: 7/8 x 7/16" (22 x 11 mm)
Signature: r. and v.: butterfly
Inscription: 'Top.'/ 'No. l./ 'Page 288.' and 'size'

r. and v.: Butterfly

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1261) as 'r. and v.: Butterfly'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, London, 1890, p. 46.
  • Whistler, James McNeill, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 2nd edition, London and New York, 1892, repr.p. 288.

Websites

  • Library of Congress website at https://www.loc.gov.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret