Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Whistler 292 f.56
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume of 'Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly'
Size: 7 15/16 x 6 3/8" (202 x 157 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Not to be made // attach to 3 & 4' in unknown hands; printed proof, text 'AND IT IS GRAVEN UPON THE TABLETS OF THE CAUSES CELEBRES - AND THE NEW LAW IS ADDED TO THE CODE NAPOLEON! AND THE NAME THEREOF IS FAMOUS FOREVER! '