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

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M.1547
Title-page for 'The Baronet and the Butterfly'

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1898/1899
Collection: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Accession Number: Manuscript Collection MS-4481
Medium: pencil, crayon and black ink
Support: white wove paper
Size: 310 x 198 mm (12 3/16 x 7 13/16")
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Eden versus Whistler / The Baronet / & / The Butterfly / A Valentine with / a Verdict // Paris. Dec. 1897.'

Title-page for 'The Baronet and the Butterfly'

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1547) as "Title-page for ‘The Baronet and the Butterfly’ ".

Authored by Whistler

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

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