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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; b.r.
(2) inscr in ink; t.r. "537"
(3) Watermark; bell with letters CVD (?) 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 newly appointed editor of ?The Art Journal?, David Croal Thomson, wrote to Whistler in early December of 1892 with the suggestion of publishing one of the artist?s lithographs in the periodical. Although Whistler initially refused the invitation as he felt the offered fee was too low, in autumn of 1893 he changed his mind. "Nursemaids: "Les Bonnes du Luxembourg" " was drawn in February, 1884 and published by ?The Art Journal? in December of the same year. (See also GLAHA 49062/49063/49322-49327/49746/49747/49749/49844/50243).
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: | CHILDREN : SCULPTURE : PARIS : 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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