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Description: | Royal (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) s. in pencil with butterfly; b.c.
(3) Watermark; Baslerstab
(4) stamp; v. square stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip PRINT WAY, Thomas Robert; (English; 1861-1913) CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) Although the two sitters in this lithograph have never been named, there?s no reason to doubt the traditional identification of Beatrix Whistler and her sister, Ethel Birnie Philip. Beatrix is depicted reclining in an armchair in the drawing room of the Whistlers? Paris home at 110 rue du Bac. Her lethargic pose may well be an indication of the early symptoms of the cancer she was diagnosed with some months after this portrait was drawn. When Whistler first received proofs of this image from Thomas Way, he was unhappy with some aspects of the lithograph and made a number of corrections to the stone before additional impressions were pulled. However, when the artist?s estate was inventoried in 1903, forty-six impressions of "The Sisters" were found, more than half of them signed. It is likely that Whistler withdrew the lithograph from circulation and sale due to its painful associations with his wife?s illness. No posthumous edition was printed. This is a first state impression printed by Thomas Way. (See also GLAHA 49092/49378 - 49380/49487/49654/49681/49788/49789).
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: | PORTRAIT : BEATRICE WHISTLER : ETHEL WHIBLEY : ETHEL BIRNIE PHILIP : 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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