Signed, in plate, upper left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram; signed, in graphite, below the plate line, lower left, with Whistler's butterfly monogram, followed by the abbreviation "imp."
Stamped, verso, BM, for Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845?-1924] (Glasgow, Scotland) (Lugt 394) Stamped, verso, HW, for Harris Whittemore [1862-1927] (Naugatuck, Connecticut, USA) Lugt 1384a)
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, in Whistler's hand: Whistler's own, to be returned; Inscribed, in pencil, verso, in an unknown hand, H L Q, the initials of the Brooklyn, New York, collector Henry L. Quick (ca. 1850-1916)