Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); lower left on the verso: (butterfly, upside down); on tab: butterfly of 1886
Provenance
Collection of Mr. James Watson Webb [1884-1960] and Mrs. Electra Havemeyer Webb [1888-1960], Los Angeles and Vermont; gift to NGA 1942.
Exhibition History
- 1963
- American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 232.
- 1986
- Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1986-1987.
- 1995
- Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
- 2012
- "Peintre-graveur: Adventures in Graphic Arts in the 19th Century", Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan, 2012.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 193, iv/vi.
- 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. 221, state vii/xiii.
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