
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Accession Number
1943.3.8545
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 194, state xv/xv
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased 14 January 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 210, viii/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. 194, state xv/xv.
Inscriptions
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: butterfly 'imp.'; lower right on verso: c.11494' ; 'R 2730' (upside down)
Watermarks
IV (large) countermark (Chicago watermark 193)
Wikidata ID
Q65021962