Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002347H.C. Pollitt
Inscriptions
Signed recto, upper right, in lithographic crayon: [artist's butterfly monogram]; inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: "1943"; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "w.9233"
Provenance
Bryan Lathrop, by 1917 [former accession number 1917.680; stamp (Lugt 2972) recto, lower right, and verso, lower left, in red]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1934.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Bryan Lathrop Collection of Etchings and Lithographs by James McNeill Whistler," March 12-May 1, 1917, cat. 377. Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, "American Portrait Drawings," May 1-July 31, 1980, pp. 80-81 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Songs on Stone: James McNeill Whistler and the Art of Lithography," June 6-August 30, 1998; traveled to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, October 2, 1998-January 3, 1999.
Publications
Andrew McLaren Young, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spence, Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler (New Haven, 1980), p. 163, under no. 349. Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels, and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, 1995), p. 521, no. 1454 (ill.). The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler: A Catalogue Raisonné, ed. Harriet K. Stratis and Martha Tedeschi (Chicago and New York, 1998), I:p. 513, no. xv. Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley (Berkeley, 2002), pp. 39, 576-77n37.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- James McNeill Whistler / American, 1834-1903
- Date
- 1896
- Medium
- Lithographic crayon on thin, transparent transfer paper, tipped onto card (modern mount)
- Dimensions
- 23.8 × 15.9 cm (9 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- lithographic crayon
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Bryan Lathrop
- Accession no.
- 1934.681
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