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Description: | CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) This lithographic stone is one of nine in the Whistler Collection. It depicts the image "The Smith's Yard - Lyme Regis" (see GLAHA 49411-49414, 49111-4, 49607 (image at 49114). Note that the image is in reverse, though Whistler's original drawing would have been the same way round as the final print. Whistler drew the original image on 'papier vegetal' and sent it along with six other drawings, mostly of the same smithy, to be processed by the Ways on 27, September 1895. It transferred well to the stone, although the other drawings processed at the same time were less successful. Whistler clearly liked the result as he exhibited "The Smith's Yard" at the Fine Art Society in 1895 and set the price as high as he was able - at four guineas.
Solenhofen Limestone comes from an area between Nuremberg and Munich in Southern Germany and is named after a small town in the region. It is a fine-grained, flat-cleaving limestone quarried since the Stone Age for roof and floor tiles, and more recently for lithography, for which it is ideal. Solenhofen limestone is also famous for its fossils which are rare but unusually exquisite in detail and more likely than others to be of soft bodied or highly delicate creatures.
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958 | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MATERIALS : LYME REGIS : LITHOGRAPHY : STONE : WAY : TRANSFER : STONE : THE SMITH'S YARD : TECHNIQUE : EQUIPMENT : PROCESS : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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