Signed, on stone, center left edge: [Whistler's butterfly device]

Watermark: [top half of heraldic device] Stamp, in brown, lower left, verso: RBP in a circle, indicating that it was printed at the direction of Whistler's executor, his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) after Whistler's death. (Lugt 405)

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: W. 27 K 32807 Inscribed, lower left, verso: K27 Inscribed, lower right, verso: Tyresmith | W27

Rosalind Birnie Philip (London, England). 1930, (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA

1930-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 12, 4 (1931): pp. 41-43.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Tyresmith, 1890, printed in 1904, transfer lithograph printed in black ink on heavy cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Julius H. Haas, 30.351.