James McNeill Whistler - [Work]

Pencil sketch of four men from a small notebook of squared sheets.
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Signed with butterfly.
Buff wove paper, printed with blue-grey squares, apparently from a small notebook.
James McNeill Whistler : drawings, pastels, and watercolors : a catalogue raisonné / Margaret F. MacDonald. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1995, no. 1667 (p. 600)
Purchase; Pennell family and others?; 1921-1936.
Forms part of the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection of Whistleriana.