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Description: | Royal (1) s. in stone with butterfly; u.l.
(2) inscr. in pencil; b.l. "To. / F. Goulding / R. Birnie Philip"
(3) inscr. in monograpm; b.r. "GF"
(4) stamp; v. round stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PRINT GOULDING, Frederick (English; 1842-1909) This is a posthumous printing. After Whistler?s death in 1903, his heir and sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip, commissioned the London printer, Frederick Goulding, to print posthumous editions of many of Whistler?s lithographs. Between October 1903 and May 1904, Goulding pulled impressions from 94 stones and transferred and printed 10 previously untransferred lithographic drawings. The passage du Dragon in Paris no longer exists, but its original location would have been within easy walking distance of Whistler?s house at 110, rue du Bac. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the area housed foundries and the workshops of ironmongers, coppersmiths and tinsmiths. Whistler drew such subjects on many different occasions, in a variety of different media. From Whistler?s correspondence of the time, it appears that the initial proofs for "The Forge, Passage du Dragon" were not a success. In his memoir of 1912, Thomas Way noted that "[Whistler] had to spend many hours working upon the stones before he got proofs to his liking". (See also GLAHA 49094/49096/49381 - 49384/49596/49652/49683 - 49685).
This work was presented to the University of Glasgow by Dr. J.A. McCallum (1862-1948). | 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: | BLACKSMITHS : POULTRY : 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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