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

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M.1558
Two butterflies on tricolour flags among the clouds

Artist: James McNeill Whistler
Date: 1899
Collection: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Accession Number: GLAHA 46276
Medium: pen and black ink
Support: cream wove paper
Size: 7 3/16 x 9" (182 x 229 mm)
Signature: butterflies
Inscription: none

Two butterflies on tricolour flags among the clouds

Catalogues Raisonnés

  • MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1558) as 'Two butterflies on tricolour flags among the clouds'.

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. viii.

Websites

  • The Hunterian website at http://collections.gla.ac.uk.

Last updated: 7th December 2020 by Margaret