Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; lower left on verso: a 25243 (underlined); MK 32566; on verso, incorrect title crossed out and title; lower left on the verso: nm-
Provenance
(H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a a 25243). (Knoedler & Co., New York, stock no. MK 32566). Purchased November 26, 1929 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 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. 280
- 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. 274, state i/ii.
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