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

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M.1574
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Whistler 292 f.77
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume
Size: 6 1/16 x 5 11/16" (155 x 145 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: r.: 'Resumé / Reduced to about size of/ present butterfly', and in unknown hands 'Top/ (8)/ Red: to about one third as 3 to 1'; v.: '17 x 14' in an unknown hand

Butterfly

Composition

Butterfly, Glasgow University Library
Butterfly, Glasgow University Library
Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, p. 79, Glasgow University Library
Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, p. 79, Glasgow University Library

This version was published in Whistler 1899 (F)[more] , printed on p. 79, at the end of the 'Resumé'.

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