James McNeill Whistler and Auguste Delâtre
Little Arthur
1857
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 172 × 143 mm. (6 3/4 × 5 5/8 in.)
Plate: 59 × 50 mm. (2 5/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.11632
According to Glasgow, "The tiny pencil butterfly dates from the 1890s."
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Kennedy, Edward Guthrie. The Etched Work of Whistler (New York: Grolier Club, 1910; reprint, San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1978), #9.
Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk.
Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2012, on-line website at http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk.
Inscribed: Signed in pencil: lower right "[butterfly]" Signed in plate: lower left "Whistler" Inscribed in pencil: bottom left, in unknown hand "Little Arthur"
Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)
