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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Dimensions
plate: 17.15 x 23.18 cm (6 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
sheet (includes tab with signature): 17.78 x 23.18 cm (7 x 9 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1942.15.30
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 208, state v/xii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
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
1943
Whistler Etchings, NGA, 1943.
1947
Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, NGA, 1947.
1951
Etchings by Whistler, NGA, 1951.
1959
Whistler Etchings, NGA, 1959.
2022
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 2022.
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 213, ii/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. 208, state v/xii.
Inscriptions
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; in graphite at lower left on the verso: Whistler (upside down and underlined with an oblique line)
Watermarks
WW countermark
Wikidata ID
Q64958887