
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint in dark brown on Asian tissue, mounted on off-white paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 24.1 x 16.2 cm (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.8639
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Catalogue Raisonné
MacDonald 2012, no. 452, state iv/v
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 60040). Theodore de Witt, New York. Bought November 7, 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
1994
James McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995, no. 164.
Bibliography
1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 403, iii/iv.
1994
James McNeill Whistler. Exh. cat. Tate Gallery, London; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-1995: no. 164.
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. 452, state iv/v.
Inscriptions
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower left on the backboard: To / George Henschel-; lower left on verso: a 60040
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65022057