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 brush and black ink over graphite (verso), on cream wove card
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, upper left, in black ink, in Whistler's hand: "top"; inscribed recto, right, in black ink, in Whistler's hand: "[length notation] / size from tip of antennae / to foot-" (written sideways); inscribed recto, lower right, in black ink, in Whistler's hand: "page 58. / "Shocking bad Raconteur" "; inscribed recto, upper center, in graphite: "5/16 16s." (written sideways); inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "oc 4123" (written sideways)
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Dimensions
- 12 × 15.9 cm (4 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Walter S. Brewster
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Reference Number
- 1933.290
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/113078/manifest.json