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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in plate; b.r. "Whistler 1861."
(2) inscr. on flyleaf of volume; "S.t 434/789/R Dunthorne"
(3) inscr. on binding of volume; "WHISTLER'S ETCHINGS" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PUB Fine Art Society; (London) The subject of this powerful portrait is Joanna Hifferman, Whistler's model and mistress in the early 1860s. She posed for Whistler many times and he drew her in a variety of different media. This impression is taken from the cancelled plate, although other states were published by the Fine Art Society in 1879. This impression was bound in a volume with GLAHA 49975 - 50030, with a description by Rosalind Birnie Philip of how she came by them. (See also GLAHA 49938 - 49971/49973/49974).
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 : CANCELLED PLATE : JOANNA HIFFERNAN : 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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