About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- James McNeill Whistler
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Title
- Butterfly (recto); Study of Butterfly (verso)
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1898–1899
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Medium
- Pen and black ink over graphite (recto), and pen and black ink, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint (verso), on cream wove card
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, middle right, in black-brown ink, in Whistler's hand: "[length measurement] size from top of body / to lowest point of tail" (written sideways); inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite, in Whistler's hand: "The Baronets indiscretions"; inscribed recto, middle right, in graphite: "2 5/8 full" (written sideways); inscribed verso, middle left, in graphite: "8" (written sideways); inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "oc 4123"
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Dimensions
- 22.5 × 14.3 cm (8 7/8 × 5 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
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Reference Number
- 1933.292
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/113080/manifest.json