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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) Watermark; O. W. P. & A. C. L.
(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 pose of the young girl in "Nude Model, Reclining", is similar to that of a number of pastels produced by Whistler in the early 1890s. When Whistler first received the proofs of this lithograph he declared it "a great success". He then proposed that the transfer drawing be used as the basis for a lithotint, but upon seeing a sketch of Whistler?s suggested improvements Thomas Way strongly advised against the idea. (See also GLAHA 49353/49575/49649/49660).
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: | NUDE : SOFA : HETTIE PETTIGREW : 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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