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

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Butterfly

Composition


                    Butterfly, Glasgow University Library
Butterfly, Glasgow University Library

This was one of several versions of the butterfly with a tricolour flag, drawn for publication in Whistler 1899 (F)[more] . It was not published in this form, but as in Butterfly and tricolour flag [M.1560].

Conservation History

The paper is dark cream. This is one of several drawings inset into sheets before being bound into a copy of the The Baronet and the Butterfly.

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret