Inscription
lower right in plate: Whistler. 1859.; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: Thames Police; lower right in graphite: (43) / [the artist's butterfly]
Provenance
Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.
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, state ii/vi. http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk