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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; by later hands, at lower right on the verso: title

Provenance

T. G. Arthur [1858-1907], Scotland; (Wunderlich & Co., New York, a 36708, 1902). (Knoedler & Co., New York, 1920s, stock no. MK 30956). Bought November 10, 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. 313.
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. 294, only state.

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