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Description: | Royal (1) s. in stone with butterfly; u.r.
(2) 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. William Ernest Henley was a prominent British poet, critic and editor. He became editor of ?The Scots Observer? in 1888 and retained the editorship after the paper moved from Edinburgh to London to become ?The National Observer?. Henley and Whistler shared an enduring friendship and this portrait was drawn by Whistler in the last days of March, 1896. Henley posed leaning on the arm of a chair, a cigarette in his right hand. The portrait was reworked extensively on the stone after its transfer, although according to Thomas Way, Whistler regretted the additional work he had done. No proofs of the drawing prior to these alterations have been located. (See also GLAHA 49166/49457).
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 : POET : 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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