Artist: James McNeill Whistler Date: 1899 Collection: Glasgow University Library Accession Number: MS Whistler 292 ff. 45-6 Medium: pencil, pen and black ink Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume of 'Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly' Size: 6 3/16 x 7 5/16" (157 x 202 mm) Signature: butterfly Inscription: r.: ' "Argument"/ Reduced Butterfly/ about this size across- or little/ smaller' and in unknown hands 'top// 3 3/4 to 1 3/4 // 4 // Break up/ this wing a little/ through the/ centre thus'; v.: '4 inch' four times, and '64946' in unknown hand
