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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.r.
(2) inscr. in ink; u.r. "23"
(3) Watermark; Arms of Amsterdam 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. This is Whistler's second lithographic portrait of his sister-in-law, Ethel Birnie Philip. By manipulating several lithographic crayons in the execution of this work, Whistler achieved a range of subtle tonalities and a convincing sense of the figure's plasticity. (See also GLAHA 49037-49040/49557/49630/49713/49714/49716).
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 : ETHEL BIRNIE PHILIP : MRS CHARLES WHIBLEY : GLOVES : 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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