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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.l.
(2) Watermark; D. & C. BLAUW 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. Whistler drew three lithographic portraits of the printer, Thomas Way, in a single session in the Wellington Street offices of the Way firm. The first was left unfinished and was cancelled by the artist. The second drawing, according to T. R. Way?s memoir of 1912, completed failed to satisfy Whistler. The third attempt yielded the portrait judged by the artist to be the most successful, this drawing. As was his usual practice, the artist numbered the two completed portraits in order of his preference. The light source for these works was a small gas stove burning close to the ground, throwing light upwards to illuminate the sitter. (See also GLAHA 49131/49132/49133/49506).
Birnie Philip Bequet, 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: | LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTER : PORTRAIT : THOMAS WAY : 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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