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Description: | Unmounted (1) inscr. on flyleaf of volume; "S. t 434 / 789 / R Dunthorne"
(2) inscr. on binding of volume; "WHISTLER'S ETCHINGS" CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PUB Fine Art Society; (London) Sir Henry Irving, poses as Philip II of Spain. This drypoint was published by the Fine Art Society in 1879. The impression was taken from the cancelled plate and was bound in a volume with GLAHA 49975-50030, with a description by Rosalind Birnie Philip of how she came by them. This volume of cancelled impressions was formed as evidence that the plates themselves had been cancelled. There is a related oil, "Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain" (YMSM 187) which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. (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: | CANCELLED PLATE : SIR HENRY IRVING : ALFRED LORD TENNYSON : PORTRAIT : FULL LENGTH : VELAZQUEZ : THEATRICAL : JOHN HENRY BRODRIBB : 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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