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Description: | Royal (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) inscr. below stone with false butterfly
(3) inscr. in pencil; v. "1" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PRINT WAY, Thomas Robert; (English; 1861-1913) 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. When "The Smith, Passage du Dragon" was first printed, both Whistler and Thomas Way were unhappy with the results and Whistler even wrote to Way, telling him that "I have half a mind to scrape it out altogether". However, after analysing the problems that had occurred in printing and reworking the stone, Whistler eventually decided not to erase the image. This is a third state impression, printed by Thomas Way. (See also GLAHA 49098 - 49099/49385 - 49387/49597/49653/49683 - 49685).
This work was presented to the Universtiy 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 : FORGED SIGNATURE : 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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