Inscription
[Whistler's butterfly signature] lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp." lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "a45541 / a34695 [stricken]" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "W. 135" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Henry H. Benedict collector's stampt) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1298).
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, ,stock no. a 45541). Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, (Lugt 394). 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. 165, iv/iv.
- 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. 173, state iv/iv.
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