Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; c.6536' at lower right on verso; lower right on the verso: 9; title at lower left on the verso; Kennedy number on the verso by Harold Wright
Provenance
Mrs E. B. Holden (according to Kennedy, 1910). (Colnaghi's, London, stock no. c 6536). Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, (Lugt 2936). Purchased June 23, 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 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. 295.
- 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. 282, state i/i.
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