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

 

M.1571
Butterfly

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Whistler 292 f.75
Medium: pencil
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume of 'Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly'
Size: 7 3/4 x 6 3/8" (197 x 158 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: printed text , starting 'RÉSUMÉ', with mss corrections

Butterfly

Provenance

  • Date unknown: acquired by Thomas Edward Hanley (1893-1969), Bradford, Pennsylvania;
  • 1957: acquired as part of the T. E. Hanley Collection by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

The early provenance is unknown.

Exhibitions

It was not exhibited in Whistler's lifetime.

Last updated: 9th March 2021 by Margaret