Inscription
[Whistler's butterfly signature] lower left composition, in plate, artist's hand. Not dated. "10" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "6. (ut.29) x" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "103" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "a49437" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 49437). 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. 163, state iii/v.
- 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. 171, state viii/viii.
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