Signed, in plate, upper right, with Whistler's butterfly monogram; Signed, in graphite, below the plate line, lower left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram, followed by the abbreviation "imp."

Stamp, in blue, verso, HM in circle [Howard Mansfield. Lugt 1342] Stamp, in black, verso, HW [Harris Whittemore. Lugt 1384a. See also Lugt 1342]

Inscribed, in graphite, verso, Wb (underlined, possibly WL), Glasgow suggests this might be an unidentified collector’s mark) Inscribed, in graphite, verso, center of sheet, Regent’s Quadrant; lower center, WW

Howard Mansfield [1849-1938] (New York, New York, USA)

1919 (Arthur H. Hahlo & Co., New York, New York, USA)

1919, Harris Whittemore (1862-1927)

By descent

October 14, 1952, sold by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA), auction, The Etched Work of James A. McNeill Whistler. Part II [Final] of the Well-Known Collection of the Late Harris Whittemore, lot 86, for $35. (Unidentified dealer)

Edward E. MacCrone (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)

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

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