Inscription
"[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower left tab, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "52751" verso, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.
Provenance
Possibly John Caldwell (note on Mat), Pittsburgh [1882-1907]. (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 34130). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1931
- Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 147, iv/viii.
- 2012
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 141, state vi/xvi.
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