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

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M.1577
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Sp Coll Whistler 292, f.5
Medium: pencil, pen and black ink
Support: buff wove paper, bound into a volume
Size: 124 x 124 mm (4 7/8 x 4 7/8")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: r.: ‘to this scale / from top / of antenna’ and in unknown hands ‘top’ and ‘red 1/3 to 5/8’; v.: ‘16 3 13 / 64906’ in unknown hands

Butterfly

Conservation History

It was probably as an illustration and was later bound into a copy of Whistler 1899 (F)[more] .

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret