Inscription
upper left on stone: [the artist's butterfly]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: W80 / MK 32882; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: C - 2887 / 4 4; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: DK
Marks and Labels
stamped lower verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]; stamped lower left verso in brown ink: [RBP monogram]
Provenance
Rosalind Birnie Philip (the artist's sister-in-law), London, England; Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Exhibition History
- 1979
- British Prints from the Bristow Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979
- 1982
- American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 29
- 1983
- Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 30
- 1990
- Haden, Whistler, Pennell: Three Master Printmakers in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1990, no. 53
- 2002
- The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873-1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002
- 2003
- The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003-2004
Bibliography
- 1896
- Way, Thomas Robert. Mr. Whistler's Lithographs: The Catalogue. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1896; New York: H. Wunderlich & Co., 1905, no. 80.
- 1998
- Stratis, Harriet K., and Martha Tedeschi, eds. The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler, vol. 1. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998, pp. 185-188, no. 51, ii/ii.
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