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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: butterfly of 1886; lower right on the verso by later hand: Mm.;
MK 31375; 20526 (crossed out); on verso: 16213 MK. (crossed out)

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York.). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); 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. 194, iv/ix.
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. 190, state v/xvii.

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