Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); lower right on the verso (the st superscript with a dot underneath:The Canal - Ostende / 1st State [there is a backslash below 'state' and above the butterfly]
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 33626). Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York (Lugt 1298). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1931
- Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 353.
- 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. 352, only state.
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