Signed in plate, upper right: [Whistler's butterfly device] In pencil on tab, lower left center: [Whistler's butterfly device followed by] imp.

Stamp in blue, verso: Howard Mansfield [Lugt 1342] Stamp in black, verso: HW [Harris Whittemore; see Lugt 1342]

Inscribed in pencil, verso, center of sheet: WW Titled, lower center: Regent's Quadrant

Howard Mansfield (New York, New York, USA)

Harris G. Whittemore (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA)

Confidential donor

1962-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Regent's Quadrant, ca. 1885, etching printed in brown ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Anonymous bequest in memory of Hal H. Smith, 62.58.