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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.r.
(2) Watermark; shield with a fleur de lys 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. This view is of the rooftops in the old Breton town of Vitre and was drawn during a trip made by Whistler and his wife, Beatrix, to Brittany during July and August of 1893. When Whistler sent the drawing to be printed he feared that the image would not transfer successfully as the crayons he had used were softer than those recommended for use on the transfer paper he had used. However, when the first proofs came back to Whistler he was delighted with the results. (See also 49054/49303/49304/49567).
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: | TOWNSCAPE : BRITTANY : VILAINE,RIVER : VITRE : 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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