
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (trimmed to plate): 8.1 × 17.5 cm (3 3/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.8607
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 312, state i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Knoedler & Co., New York.) Purchased November 10, 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Associated Names
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. 317.
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. 312, state i/iii.
Inscriptions
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower right on the verso: 1st proof (the 'st' superscript with a dot beneath)
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65022023