Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Butterfly

Composition

Butterfly, Freer Gallery of Art
Butterfly, Freer Gallery of Art

Designed for Whistler 1890 [more]. The exuberant butterfly formed the signature for 'A Played-out Policy', Pall Mall Gazette, 9 December 1886, about The Times' reluctance to publish Whistler's correspondence.

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