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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.r. (below window)
(2) inscr. in ink; b.r. "83"
(3) Watermark; countermark PA 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 and his wife, Beatrix, left Paris in August 1895 and travelled first to Normandy and then to the fishing village of Lyme Regis, Dorset. Both hoped that the sea air would improve Beatrix's failing health as she battled with the cancer that had been diagnosed towards the end of 1894. Whistler rented a studio and this is one of seven lithographic drawings he sent to Thomas Way for printing. However, the intensity of the images was affected in printing, perhaps justifying Whistler?s concern that the damp atmosphere of Lyme Regis had adversely affected the lithographic paper, but despite his initial disappointment with the proofs, Whistler did include "The Little Doorway, Lyme Regis" in an exhibition of his lithographs at the Fine Arts Society a few months later. (See also GLAHA 49398-49400/49602).
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: | DORSET : CHILDREN : STREETSCAPE : BOW WINDOW : 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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