Inscription
on plate: (butterfly); on tab: butterfly imp / butterfly of 1885/1886; by later hands on verso: C.3373 / C26714
Provenance
Howard Mansfield [1849-1938], New York, (Lugt 1342). Bought on 15 March 1928 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1760b); 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.
- 2003
- "Whistler and His Circle in Venice", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Kennedy, Edward G. The Etched Work of Whistler. New York: Grolier Club, 1910, no. 197, iii/ix.
- 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. 237, state iv/xvii.
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