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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; l.c.
(2) stamp in black ink; b.r. "182"
(3) stamp; v. "181" 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. According to Thomas Way, Whistler drew this nocturnal scene of people gathered at an outdoor café in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Whistler?s command of the lithographic crayon has allowed him to successfully render the effect of artificial illumination at night by using an alternating pattern of light and dark. Whistler was pleased with the finished image and in a letter to Way in August, 1894, Whistler asked him if he did not also find the image "fine and very simple and direct?". (See GLAHA 49074/49347/49348/49349/49584/49669/49670/49772-49775/49848).
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: | BOIS DE BOULOGNE : CAFE CHANTANT : 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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