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

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M.1579
r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: E. R. and J. Pennell Collection, DRWG/MA Whistler
Medium: r.: pencil, pen, dark brown ink and white paint; v.: pencil
Support: buff card
Size: 114 x 92 mm (4 1/2 x 3 5/8")
Signature: unsigned
Inscription: r.: ‘outside / distance across’; v.: in unknown hand, ‘Heinemann / Today’
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r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings

r.: Butterfly; v.: Butterfly with chequered wings were intended for publication in Whistler 1899 (US)[more].

Butterfly, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Butterfly, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Butterfly with chequered wings, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Butterfly with chequered wings, Pennell Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The sheet is catalogued in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 1579).

Last updated: 19th March 2021 by Margaret