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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; l.c.
(2) Watermark; crown over shield
(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. "The Strong Arm" was drawn in the Govier family?s smithy on Broad Street in Lyme Regis, Dorset, and is one of the most impressionistic of the lithographs that Whistler produced while staying in the seaside town. It was among seven lithographs depicting scenes of Lyme Regis that Whistler sent to Thomas Way to transfer and print. Whistler worried that some of the images may not print well due to the transfer paper being adversely affected by the damp sea air, and indeed a number of the lithographs from this period are pale and weak in their finished state. When Whistler received the proofs of this image, he was disappointed with the results. (See also GLAHA 49109-49114/49116-49122/49124/49415/49416).
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 : GOVIER : LYME REGIS : DORSET : 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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