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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.r.
(2) Watermark; crown over shield with a fleur de lys
(3) stamp; v. round stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip 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. "La Belle Jardiniere" captures a passing moment in the garden of Whistler?s home at 110, rue du Bac, Paris. Beatrix Whistler tends the flowers in a plant stand that appears in many other lithographs of their Paris garden, as well as some drawn in the garden of their London home on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. When this image was printed, both Whistler and Thomas Way were delighted with the proofs. Referring to this lithograph, Whistler commented in a letter to Way in August, 1894, that "the result is excellent". (See also GLAHA 49370/49591/49639/49766/49767).
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 : BEATRICE WHISTLER : GARDEN : 110 RUE DE BAC : 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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