Inscription
on plate: butterfly; lower right on the verso: Whistler (upside down); on tab: butterfly 'imp.' / 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
- 2003
- "Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003, no. 43.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 196, iii/x.
- 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. 191, state iii/xviii.
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