Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; in graphite at lower left on the verso: Whistler (upside down and underlined with an oblique line)
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.
- 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. 213, ii/vii.
- 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. 208, state v/xii.
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