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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; u.c.
(2) inscr. in brown ink; v. with a quotation in Greek
(3) Watermark; GR in a wreath 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 Shoemaker" was one of the first transfer drawings that Whistler executed after his acrimonious break with the Way printing firm. It was entitled "The Shoemaker, Dieppe" by Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip in her 1903 inventory of the artist?s estate, and indeed it does seem to have been drawn during a period when Whistler was making frequent Channel crossings. The dating for this particular image is probably late December of 1896. (See also GLAHA 49193/49194/49489/49628/49827-49829/49831-49833).
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: | COBBLER : INTERIOR : 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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