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

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r. and v.: Butterfly

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                    r.: Butterfly, Library of Congress
r.: Butterfly, Library of Congress

                    v.: Butterfly, Library of Congress
v.: Butterfly, Library of Congress

Designs for Whistler 1892 [more] . The butterfly on the recto is the signature to 'What "Mr.Whistler had on his own Toast', a letter to the Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette dated 1 August and published on 4 August 1891, regarding a picture at Dowdeswells (Pink and Grey: Three Figures [YMSM 089]), which Whistler had intended to destroy: 'To destroy, is to remain'. The butterfly on the verso was not published.

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