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Description: | R; mounted with verso uppermost Printed letterhead on recto: "21. CHEYNE WALK, / CHELSEA". Inscr. in ink by Beatrix Whistler on verso: "anti-Pyrene". CRE WHISTLER, Beatrix; (English; 1857-1896) This is a sketch of the artist's mother, Frances Philip (1824-1917), widow of sculptor John Birnie Philip (1824-1875); together they had ten children. After Beatrix Whistler's death in 1896, Frances and her youngest daughter Rosalind, were a central part of Whistler's household.
On the back Beatrix Whistler has written 'anti-Pyrene', which was an analgesic, anti-rheumatic drug used to cure infections. The sketch is drawn on a sheet of the Whistlers' letter paper, with the address of their home in London from February 1890-1893, 21 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. It was found in a group of letters to Whistler from the American collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924).
Birnie Philip Gift, 1955 | 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: | PORTRAIT : PHILIP, MRS JOHN BIRNIE : FEMALE COSTUME : | 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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