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
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Prints of James A. McNeill Whistler from the Museum Collection," February 14-April 1, 1984.
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)
