Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint in dark brown on laid paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Watson Webb in memory of Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer
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Accession Number
1942.15.14
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 237
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by Mrs H. O. Havemeyer, 1910; Collection of Mr. James Watson Webb [1884-1960] and Mrs. Electra Havemeyer Webb [1888-1960], Los Angeles and Vermont; gift to NGA 1942.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 227.
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 197, v/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. 237, state vi/xvii.
Inscriptions
on plate: (butterfly); lower left on verso: butterfly (upside down); on tab: butterfly imp.; on tab: butterfly of 1886
Watermarks
Strasbourg lily / FI (script) (Chicago watermarks 284 and 285)
Wikidata ID
Q64958858