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Description: | RH None CRE WHISTLER, Beatrix; (English; 1857-1896) This drawing of a cupid giving a pigeon a letter to deliver, is probably related to poems by the French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898). Early in 1892 Whistler tried to interest the publisher William Heinemann in a book of quatrains by Mallarmé, 'Récreations Postales'. These four-line poems were written on letters to friends as imaginative replacements to their postal addresses.
Whistler also approached Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, but in the end, only a selection was published in the 'Chap Book', Chicago in 1894. The subject of cupid letting a bird out of a cage is related to Whistler's design for a stamp to go with 'Recréations Postales', (M1341, GLAHA 46170). Beatrix Whistler drew other cupids which are in Glasgow University Library and the Hunterian Collection (GLAHA 46469, 46470).
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: | POST : CUPID : MALLARME, STEPHANE : BIRDCAGE : | 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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