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Description: | Unmounted (1) s. in stone with butterfly; u.l.
(2) Watermark; crowned shield with a fleur de lys
(3) stamp; v. square stamp of Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip CRE WHISTLER, James McNeill; (American; 1834-1903) PRINT WAY, Thomas Robert; (English; 1861-1913) The sitter for this portrait is Whistler?s wife, Beatrice, asleep in an armchair in the drawing room of their Paris house at 110 rue du Bac. When Whistler saw the first proofs of this image, he immediately counted it among his favourite lithographs. However, it seems that Whistler became reluctant to part with this impression later in life, perhaps because the image held painful associations with the cancer Beatrice was diagnosed with. When he died, there were twenty-five impressions of "La Belle Dame Endormie" remaining in his estate. This stone is also one of the few that Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip ordered the London printer, Frederick Goulding, to destroy without pulling a posthumous edition. This lithograph was printed by Thomas Way. (See also GLAHA 49087/49594/49681).
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 : BEATRICE WHISTLER : SLEEP : | 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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