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Description: | Royal (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.r.
(2) Watermark; "PRO PATRIA" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PRINT GOULDING, Frederick (English; 1842-1909) This lithograph was only printed posthumously. 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. This portrait of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip was one of the untried transfer drawings that remained in Whistler?s studio at the time of his death. When Miss Birnie Philip inventoried the lithographs in the artist?s estate, she listed the image as "Untried transfer (No. 5) oval". Whistler may not have taken this small sketch as seriously as his elaborately worked portraits, and it is quite likely that he simply forgot the drawing as he became increasingly preoccupied by his wife?s illness and his mounting expenses. (See also GLAHA 49222/49491).
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 : ROSALIND BIRNIE PHILIP : 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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