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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) Watermark; H.SMITH & SON / 1824 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. The woman seated at the table in this image has been identified as Maud Alice Burke, a young American woman who was spending time in Europe in 1894, and it is likely that while Miss Burke was visiting Paris she was introduced to Whistler through a mutual friend. The setting for this lithograph is believed to be the drawing room of Whistler?s house at 110 rue du Bac, Paris, rather than in his studio. When Whistler received the first proofs of this lithograph from Thomas Way, he was delighted with the results and commented in a letter to Way on 22nd August, 1834, "The lady seated in the hat and feathers that I shall call for the present "The Visit", is really splendid! In its go and brightness!". (See also GLAHA 49079/49589/49764/49765/49849).
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 : MAUD ALICE BURKE : 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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