Inscription
"[Whistler's butterfly signature] imp" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. Verso: none.
Marks and Labels
(Albert W. Scholle collector's mark) recto and verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2923a). "B.M." (Bernard B. MacGeorge collector's stamp) verso, purple stamped ink, (Lugt 394). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.
Provenance
Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394); (H. Wunderlich & Co., New York, stock no. a 37288). Albert W. Scholle [d. 1910], New York, (Lugt 2923a). Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b-c), purchased 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1931
- Etchings, Lithographs, Original Drawings, and Autograph Letters by James A. McNeill Whistler, The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1931.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 154, i/iv.
- 2012
- MacDonald, Margaret F., Grischka Petri, Joanna Meacock.James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné. University of Glasgow on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow, 2012: no. 166, state iib/xiii.
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