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 "Encountered" (recto); Sketch for Tailpiece (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 graphite (verso), on cream wove card
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, upper left, in black-brown ink, in Whistler's hand: "size from highest point of tail to bottom of lowest foot / [length measurement]" (written sideways); inscribed recto, middle left, in black-brown ink, in Whistler's hand: " "Encountered" "; inscribed recto, center top, in black-brown ink, in Whistler's hand: "Top"; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "oc 4123"; inscribed verso, center bottom, in graphite: "5"
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Dimensions
- 15.7 × 12.2 cm (6 3/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
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Reference Number
- 1933.288
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/113076/manifest.json