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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; by later hands on verso, lower left: Little / Maunders; lower center: 54

Provenance

Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York, (Lugt 1342); probably sold through A. A. Hahlo & Co., New York, to Harris Whittemore [1864-1927], Naugatuck, CT, 1919; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 January 1949, lot 314); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, PA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA, 1949; gift to the NGA, 1949.





Exhibition History

1998
Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography, The Art Institute of Chicago and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1998, no.59, repro.

Bibliography

1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 279.
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. 273, only state.

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