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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; b.r.
(2) Watermark; VAN GELDER 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. Whistler drew this image of Parisians gathered to watch the funeral procession of Marie Francois Sadi Carnot, president of the French Republic, on the morning of July 1st, 1894. Carnot had been stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist in Lyons on 24th June. Whistler watched the cortege from a window overlooking the rue de Rivoli, and as he did, he created two transfer drawings of spectators clustered on the sunny balconies and in the windows of a building directly opposite his own vantage point. (See also GLAHA 49064-49066/49328-49331/49577/49578/49661-49664/49750-49752/49845/50244).
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: | PARASOLS : FUNERAL PROCESSION : PARIS : PRESIDENT MARIE FRANCOIS SADI CARNOT : SPECTATORS : 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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