Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); on board or panel at left: BECCINO [?]; on tab: (butterfly) imp; on verso: a 37369
Provenance
Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow (partial stamp, Lugt 394); Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 37369); Edward G. Kennedy [1849-1932], New York (Lugt 857); Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York, (Lugt 1342); acquired by Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 January 1949, lot 305); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 266.
- 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. 278, state i/ii.
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