
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint on Asian laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 22.23 x 14.61 cm (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
sheet (includes tab with signature): 23.18 x 14.61 cm (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.8656
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 225
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased March 16, 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.
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 200, vii/vii.
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. 225, no state listed.
Inscriptions
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: butterfly 'imp.'(butterfly of 1886)
Wikidata ID
Q65022074