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); Fragment 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 over graphite, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint (verso), on cream wove card
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, lower right, in black-brown ink, in Whistler's hand: "[length notation] size across, outside / measure. / page 59- / filtered into Court"; inscribed recto, middle right, in graphite: "5/16"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "oc 4123"; inscribed verso, center bottom, in graphite: "6"
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Dimensions
- 15.9 × 12.3 cm (6 5/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
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Reference Number
- 1933.287
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/113074/manifest.json