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

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M.1561
r.: and v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number: 1933.292
Medium: r.: graphite pencil, pen and black ink; v.: pen and white paint
Support: cream wove card
Size: 8 3/4 x 5 5/8" (223 x 143 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'The Baronets indiscretions' and 'size from top of body/ to lowest point of tail', and in unknown hand, '2 5/8 full'; collector's mark 'WSB' (Walter Stanton Brewster); v.: in unknown hands '8/ 33.292/ ac4123'

r.: and v.: Butterfly
r.: Butterfly, Art Institute of Chicago
r.: Butterfly, Art Institute of Chicago
Butterfly, in Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, p. xii, Glasgow University Library
Butterfly, in Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly, p. xii, Glasgow University Library

Verso not reproduced.

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