Childs Gallery: The Tyresmith by James Whistler

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Artist:	Whistler, James Abbott McNeill American (1834-1903)	Title:	The Tyresmith
Date:	1890	Media:	Lithograph
Dimensions:	6 3/4 X 6 7/8 inches	Signature:	stamped in stone
Description:	Chicago 36; Way 27; Levy 41, from posthumous edition of 51 impressions from the original stone printed by Goulding on March 29, 1904. [Only 8 lifetime impressions were printed from the original stone by Way - all 8 impressions are in known collections.] Signed in stone lower left with the artist's butterfly signature. Chicago watermark 219 is: "O.W.P & A.C.L". A fine impression on cream laid paper, sheet size 15 x 10 3/8 inches (38 x 26.3 cm), in fine condition aside from minor adhesive remnants on upper corners verso, with full margins. The Tyresmith depicts the interior of a wheelwright's shop in Chelsea. According to a note by Thomas Way (Whistler's printer) the two smiths working at an anvil are "mending the Hoop." In addition to the editions of 8 and 51 noted above, an edition from SUPPLEMENTARY STONES was Published in an edition of 500 - 1000 impressions printed by Way and issued in The Whirlwind 2, no. 20 on November 15, 1890.
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