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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) Watermark; FI PRO PATRIA over crowned lion rampant
(3) stamp; v. square stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PRINT WAY, Thomas Robert; (English; 1861-1913) Whistler selected this portrait of his friend Joseph Pennell to serve as the frontispiece of a forthcoming book on lithography written jointly by Pennell and his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Whistler drew four lithographic portraits of Joseph Pennell and one of Elizabeth Pennell in rapid succession in January, 1896, during afternoon visits to their Buckingham Street flat. This portrait was the version that Whistler preferred and the drawing was transferred to stone and proved shortly after it was made. The stone bearing "Firelight: Joseph Pennell, No. 1" was erased on Rosalind Birnie Philip?s orders after Whistler?s death in 1903, due to her personal animosity towards the Pennels, and no posthumous edition was printed. This lithograph was printed by Thomas Way. (See also GLAHA 49128/49129/49447/49448/49450/49526).
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 : JOSEPH PENNELL : 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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