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Description: | Royal (1) s. in plate with butterfly; c.r.
(2) inscr. in pencil; b.l. "K 140 III of 5 The Guitar Player (MW Ridley)"
(3) inscr. in pencil; b.r. "C21348 W122"
(4) recto: crown mark in pencil (Lugt 2921h) CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) "The Guitar Player" is a portrait of Matthew W. Ridley (1837-1888), a fellow artist and friend of Whistler?s. Impressions of this print are rare. Some were apparently printed by Delatre who was in London 1870-1876 escaping initially from the Franco-Prussian war. Whistler prized his precious drypoints highly, and this impression is the one sold to the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, for 10 guineas in 1877, a fact recorded in Whistler's ledger in Glasgow University Library (MS Whistler NB 4/3-4 MSD). Edward VII sold off most of the collection of Whistler's etching acquired by Victoria through the Royal Librarian Richard Holmes. Impressions were still priced at 10 guineas in 1879, in a list of Whistler's prints to be found in the Fine Art Society's edition of Haden's text 'About Etching'. The etching plate for this work is also in the Hunterian collection (See GLAHA 50529).
Purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi in May 1967. | 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: | MALE : FIGURE : MUSICIAN : MUSICAL INSTRUMENT : GUITAR : ARTIST : PORTRAIT : MATTHEW W. RIDLEY : 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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