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

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M.1576
Butterfly design for 'L'Envoi'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898
Collection: Whereabouts unknown
Accession Number: none
Medium: pencil, pen and dark brown ink
Support: off-white wove paper laid down
Size: 197 x 152 mm (7 3/4 x 6")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: recto inscribed ‘For l’Envoie / Butterfly about same size as present trial one – quite as small – perhaps a little smaller’ ['quite' is underlined], and, in an unknown hand, ‘4 3/4 to 1 1/2 [arrow] 1’, ‘top’, ‘(5)’; verso inscribed in unknown hand ‘black [bing] PP / 2nd margin / Lay only [&] show [&] mgin / [2] and 10 / [Devonald/Deverald] / R’

Butterfly design for 'L'Envoi'

Composition

Butterfly design for ‘L’Envoi’, Whereabouts unknown
Butterfly design for ‘L’Envoi’, Whereabouts unknown

This was reproduced exactly, but reduced in scale, in Whistler 1899 (F)[more] , p. 81.

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