Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: (butterfly) imp; on the verso: Kennedy number
Provenance
Joshua Hutchinson Hutchinson [c. 1829 - d. 1892], (Lugt 2921); (sold at Sotheby's, London, 3 March 1892, lot 309); bought by Russell, £0.18.0. Henry Harper Benedict [1844-1935], New York, ( Lugt 2936). (Knoedler & Co., New York). Bought by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); gift to National Gallery of Art, 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. 252, i/ii.
- 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. 253, state i/iii.
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