Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); on paper, lower right on the verso: (butterfly) / Selected proof; on tab: (butterfly imp.)
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 61901). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 2003
- "Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 183.
- 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. 238, state ii/ii.