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Inscription

lower left on the verso: Whistler (upside down); on tab: butterfly 'imp.';

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

1943
Whistler Etchings, NGA, 1943.
1947
Etchings by James McNeill Whistler, NGA, 1947.
1951
Etchings by Whistler, NGA, 1951.
1959
Whistler Etchings, NGA, 1959.
1963

American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 226.
1964
Prints by Whistler from the National Gallery of Art Collection, NGA, 1964.
1973
Venetian Views: Etchings by Canaletto and Whistler, NGA, 1973.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, NGA, 1995.
2022
Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 2022.

Bibliography

1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 206, i/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. 230, state i/i.

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