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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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