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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) s. in pencil by Frederick Goulding; b.r. with monogram "FG"
(3) inscr. in pencil by Rosalind Birnie Philip; l.l. "F. Goulding / R. 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. The sitter for this image is Whistler?s wife, Beatrix, and she is posed reclining on a sofa, a pillow behind her head, in the drawing room of the Whistlers? home at 110 rue du Bac. Whistler sent this image to Thomas Way to be printed and in the accompanying letter he noted the exact date of the drawing, 22nd September, 1894. In the same letter, Whistler specified the title of the work and the type of paper he wished to be used in the printing, as well as some of the visual effects he had tried to achieve; "I rely on their simplicity for their success. I send also more paper - very lovely Dutch and I think just a pretty size - we will call No. 1 "La Robe Rouge" - I rather want to see how the colour is conveyed! - ?you? will think me quite crazy! . . .". (See also GLAHA 49088-49091/ 49375/ 49376/ 49546/ 49770/ 49784-49787).
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 : 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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