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

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M.1550
r.: Butterfly for 'Noblesse abuse'; v.: tail

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: Glasgow University Library
Accession Number: Whistler 292 f.15-6
Medium: r.: pencil, pen, black ink and white paint; v.: pencil
Support: cream wove paper, bound into volume of 'Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly'
Size: 4-4 1/4 x 4 3/4" (102-108 x 121 mm)
Signature: butterfly
Inscription: 'Scale of Butterfly from/ top of antennae to foot/ Noblesse abuse'

r.: Butterfly for 'Noblesse abuse'; v.: tail

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1550) as 'r.: Butterfly for 'Noblesse abuse'; v.: tail'.

Authored by Whistler

  • Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899, p. i.

Last updated: 17th April 2019 by Margaret