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Description: | Royal (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) Watermark: "O. W. P." & "A. C. L." 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 identity of the child who sat for this portrait is unknown, although it is thought that Whistler made the drawing in January, 1896. Few impressions were pulled of this lithograph during Whistler?s lifetime, possibly because the girl?s parents were dissatisfied with the likeness and failed to order more than one or two impressions. However, Whistler thought enough of the image to have the stone preserved by Thomas Way. Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip commissioned a large posthumous edition of this lithograph after Whistler?s death in 1903. (See also GLAHA 49146/49505).
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 : CHILD : DOROTHY MENPES : 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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