Inscription
on plate: [butterfly]; lower left on the verso: 4; on tab: [butterfly of 1888/1889]
Provenance
A.J. Parsons [1857-1935], (Lugt sup. 138b). Theodore de Witt, New York.
Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1953
- Whistler's Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1953.
- 1973
- Western Maryland College, Westminster, MD, 1973.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 189, v/v.
- 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. 218, state ix/ix.