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

 

M.1250
r. and v.: Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1890
Collection: Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Accession Number: ND 237/W6A2/1899a/P&P/Pennell
Medium: r.: pencil, v.: pencil, with white paint
Support: cream card, stuck in before the title page of a copy of 'The Baronet and the Butterfly' (Whistler 1899)
Size: 3 9/16 x 5" (89 x 128 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: none

r. and v.: Butterfly

Description

r.: Butterfly, Library of Congress
r.: Butterfly, Library of Congress
v.: Butterfly, Library of Congress
v.: Butterfly, Library of Congress

Both sides bear a butterfly remotely based on Whistler's monogram 'JW', with the addition of a long barbed tail curving upwards. They were designed for Whistler 1890 [more] .

Last updated: 18th March 2021 by Margaret