Inscription
lower right in plate: Whistler. 1859.; lower center in graphite: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left in graphite by unknown hand: W42. first state, before much drypoint work in the sky.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 44.
- 2012
- MacDonald, Margaret, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock. James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, A Catalogue Raisonné. Scotland: University of Glasgow, 2012, no. 53, ii/vi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk
