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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; b.l.
(2) stamp; v. round stamp of 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. During his stay in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in the autumn of 1895, Whistler drew many studies on transfer paper in the Govier blacksmith shop on Broad Street. This particular lithograph shows the master smith, George Govier standing in the light of the furnace, where his older son, Samuel, works the bellows. The title of the lithograph suggests that the old smith enjoyed entertaining Whistler with stories during his visits to the smithy. However, when Whistler received the first proofs of this image from Thomas Way he was disappointed with the results and asked Way not to show them to anyone. (See also GLAHA 49109-49122/49124/49442/49444/49445/49602-49615).
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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