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Description: | Royal (1) s. in stone with butterfly; u.l.
(2) s. in pencil with butterfly; b.c.
(3) stamp; v. square stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip PRINT WAY, Thomas Robert; (English; 1861-1913) CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) The child who posed for this portrait was the three or four-year-old daughter of Whistler?s friend, David Croal Thomson, who had served as editor of ?The Art Journal? since November 1892. Whistler probably made the transfer drawing of Evelyn when he visited the Thomson family in January 1896 at their home outside London. "Little Evelyn" appeared in ?The Art Journal? in the March 1896 issue and Whistler also added the image to his exhibition of lithography that was in progress at the Fine Art Society, where it proved a great success. This lithograph was printed by Thomas Way in 1896. (See also GLAHA 49136/49462 - 49465/49646/49862).
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: | EVELYN CROAL THOMSON : PORTRAIT : CHILD : TOUCHED PROOF : 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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