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Inscription

on plate: (butterfly); on tab: butterfly imp.

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, probably before 1902, (Lugt 394). Knoedler & Co., New York. Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], (Lugt 1298). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c); gift to NGA, 1943.

Exhibition History

1931
Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.

Bibliography

1910
Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 141, vi/vi.
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. 144, state vii/vii.

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