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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) Watermark; O. W. P. 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 image of Parisian whitesmiths, or tinsmiths, at work was drawn in a narrow cul-de-sac near the Luxembourg Gardens, just a few blocks from Whistler?s studio on rue Notre Dame des Champs, in July, 1894. Although Whistler was initially pleased with the image, he seems to have changed his mind over time. In November, 1895, Whistler crossed "The Whitesmiths, Impasse des Carmelites", off a list of lithographs to be framed for the Fine Art Society exhibition due to open on December 4th. (See also GLAHA 49337/49357/49581/49634/49665/49846).
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: | BLACKSMITHS : ANVIL : LATIN QUARTER : COLUMNS : 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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