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Description: | s. with butterfly None CRE WATT, William; CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) DES GODWIN, Edward William; (English; 1833-1886) The architect Edward W. Godwin originally designed a fireplace with shelves above it, in September 1877, for the designer William Watt of 21 Grafton Street, London. On Godwin's suggestion, Whistler added painted decoration to the panels at the back of all the shelves. The cabinet formed the centrepiece of Watt's stand at the 1878 Universal Exhibition in Paris. Some years later, the piece was bought by the collector Pickford Waller, who converted the fireplace into a cabinet by replacing the grate with doors adapted from the dado. The work was left by Waller in his will to his daughter, who subsequently put it up for auction. A drawing for the cabinet by Godwin dated 22 September 1877 is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Notebook E.233-1963). The cabinet was purchased by the Hunterian Art Gallery at Christie's, London, on October the 4th, 1973, with support from the National Fund for Acquisitions and the National Art Collections Fund. | 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: | CLOUDS : PETALS : BUTTERFLIES : JAPONISME : FIREPLACE : EXHIBITION STAND : LIBERTY'S : BLUE AND WHITE : WHISTLER CENTENARY : NACF : | 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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