Inscription
[Whistler's butterfly signature], upper left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower left tab, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "a 20455" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "a [number erased]" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "8" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink.
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 20455). Bought June 19, 1929 by 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. 416, ii/ii.
- 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. 458, state ii/ii.
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