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

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Butterfly

Composition


                    Butterfly, Glasgow University Library
Butterfly, Glasgow University Library

                    Title-page for ‘Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly’, Glasgow University Library
Title-page for ‘Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly’, Glasgow University Library

In reducing the actual butterfly from c. 155 mm to 22 mm high, for publication in Whistler 1899 (F)[more] , some details were lost in the tail and antennae.

Technique

It was drawn in pencil, pen and black ink, with corrections in white paint.

Conservation History

This is one of several drawings inset into sheets before being bound into a copy of the The Baronet and the Butterfly.

Last updated: 17th April 2019 by Margaret