Object Details
- Description
- Lithograph of a seated woman in a dress, reading.
- Signatures
- Signed with the Butterfly on the drawing and with the Butterfly in pencil on the print.
- Edition/State
- One of two impressions, 2nd state.
- Label
- Whistler lithographs are identified by "C." numbers as described in The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998). This print is C17, fourth of four.
- Provenance
- To 1888
- H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1888 [1]
- From 1888 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1888 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Whistler List, Lithographs, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] See note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
- Date
- 1879 and 1887
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 15.4 x 12.7 cm (6 1/16 x 5 in)
- Type
