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Description: | Royal (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.r.
(2) s. in pencil with butterfly; b.c.
(3) s. with butterfly and inscr. in pencil by Whistler; "Firelight"
(4) Watermark; Fortune on her globe
(5) stamp; v. square stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip PRINT WAY, Thomas Robert; (English; 1861-1913) CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) This lithograph is a portrait of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, a writer by profession and the wife of Whistler?s friend, Joseph Pennell. Whistler drew this portrait of Elizabeth Pennell in January of 1896 at the Pennell?s flat on Buckingham Street, London. In their 1908 biography of the artist, the Pennells recalled how Whistler had drawn their portraits during afternoon visits to their home, and commented, "He worked on into the darkness, especially in the portrait of E., done while the firelight flickered on her face and on his paper." No posthumous edition of this lithograph was pulled, as Rosalind Birnie Philip ordered the stone destroyed after Whistler?s death in 1903. This lithograph was printed by Thomas Way in 1896. (See also GLAHA 49129/49447 - 49450/49526/49871).
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 : ELIZABETH ROBBINS PENNELL : 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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