Inscription
[Whistler's butterfly signature] center right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower left tab, graphite, artist's hand. "[illeg.]" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "No 1" verso, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.
Provenance
Purchased December 6, 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. 382, ii/iii.
- 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. 413, state ii/iv.
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