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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; on hub of wheel
(2) Watermark; A. W. P. & O. C. L. 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 Blacksmith" is a study of Samuel Edward Govier working at the forge in his family?s smithy in Lyme Regis, Dorset. When Whistler received the first proofs of this image from Thomas Way, he was disappointed with the results. He intended to rework the image by placing another transfer drawing over the existing one, thereby strengthening the intensity of the lithograph. Though this idea was never taken any further, Whistler made revisions to this stone and to "The Brothers" when he returned to London in December or January. (See also GLAHA 49109-49117/49119-49122/49124/49418/49419/49421).
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: | SAMUEL 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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