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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; u.l.
(2) Watermark; foolscap 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. "Needlework" is a portrait of Whistler?s sister-in-law, Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip. This drawing can be dated to January or February of 1896, when Rosalind Birnie Philip frequently sat by the bedside of her sister Beatrix, who was seriously ill with cancer. Shortly before Beatrix's death in May, 1896, Whistler made Rosalind his ward. (See also GLAHA 49142/49143/49501/49510/49617/49656/49813).
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 : ROSALIND BIRNIE PHILIP : 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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