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Inscription

on plate: [butterfly]; on verso: [butterfly]; lower left: Mr. Rawlinson -; on tab: butterfly imp.

Provenance

(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 36481). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.  

Exhibition History

1988
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.
2003
"Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; The Grolier Club, New York, 2003.

Bibliography

1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 188, v/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. 193.

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