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

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M.1559
r.: Two butterflies, one on a tricolour flag; v.: Butterfly on a tricolour flag

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46277
Medium: pen and dark brown ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 9 5/16 x 7 3/16" (229 x 182 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: none

r.: Two butterflies, one on a tricolour flag; v.: Butterfly on a tricolour flag

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1559) as 'r.: Two butterflies, one on a tricolour flag; v.: Butterfly on a tricolour flag'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, p. viii.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret