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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; b.r.
(2) s. in pencil with butterfly; b.l.
(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 drew this image of Parisians gathered to watch the funeral procession of Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, president of the French Republic, on the morning of July 1st, 1894. Carnot had been stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist in Lyons on 24th June. Whistler watched the cortege from a window overlooking the rue de Rivoli, and as he did, he created two transfer drawings of spectators clustered on the sunny balconies and in the windows of a building directly opposite his own vantage point. This is a second state impression printed by Thomas Way. (See also GLAHA 49064-49066/49328-49331/49577/49578/49661/49750-49752/50244).
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: | PARASOLS : FUNERAL PROCESSION : PARIS : CARNOT,PRESIDENT MARIE FRANCOIS SADI : SPECTATORS : 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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