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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; c.r.
(2) inscr in ink; r. "jacob 572 / jeptha 574 / ibex 235 / ibis, avis Eyptiana 573. / icarus 573. / ichudumon 573. / idea innata . . . . . . . 243"
(3) inscr in brown ink; v. "jacere 450 / jachin, cohimna 573 / jactare 493 / jael uxor ?? / hebor 573. / janthinus 570 / jacob 572"
(4) Watermark; countermark TI
(5) stamp; v. round stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip 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, Miss 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 drawing appears to have been executed rapidly, with a light touch, and when first proved it looked very much like a chalk or pencil sketch. After a few impressions had been pulled, Whistler removed most of the hatched shadow above the central doorway, thereby emphasising the simplicity of the forms. (See also GLAHA 49031/49548/49552/49698-49708/49874/49875).
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: | CHELSEA : SHOPFRONTS : TOWNSCAPE : 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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