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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; b.l.
(2) inscr. in ink; v. with fragment of a quotation from Euripides Phoen
(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 Brothers" is a study of Thomas and Samuel Govier at work before the furnace in their family blacksmith shop in Lyme Regis, Dorset. Whistler was fond of depicting the subject of smithies and did so in a variety of different media. When he received the first proofs of this image from Thomas Way, Whistler was disappointed with the results and planned some revisions to the stone. These changes were made when Whistler returned from Lyme Regis to London in late December, 1895. (See also GLAHA 49109-49118/49120-49122/49124/49392/49422/49424).
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 : BLACKSMITHS : ANVIL : 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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