Documents associated with: Lauser, Gustave
Record 13 of 48
System Number: 09689
Date: [4 July 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: Paris
Recipient: Edward Guthrie Kennedy[2]
Place: London
Repository: New York Public Library
Call Number: E. G. Kennedy I/24
Credit Line: Edward Guthrie Kennedy Papers / Manuscripts and Archives Division / The New York Public Library / Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Document Type: ALS[3]
33. Rue de Tournon. Paris -
Dear Mr. Kennedy -
I have found the Kitchen[4], Price's Candle factory[5] - and the first[6] proof of the Traghetto[7] - pulled on old wooden Press[8] in Venice, as you will see marked on back - consequently a tit bit for one of your collectors - If you don't require it, Mr Lauser[9] had better send it back at once -
The Price's Candle is fine and rare - 1st state -
| Kitchen | £6 : 6. | |
| Price's Candle Facty. | 6 : 8. | |
| Traghetto - 1st Proof. | 12 : 12 | |
| 27. 6. | minus the 20 percent. |
I am longing to hear about the interview with Mr. Huish[10] & Mr. Browne[11] [sic] of The Fine Art Sy.! etc"
Also longing to see the Pictures[12]! -
Also I shall be awfully anxious about those proofs we are sending you - to know whether any further outrages [p. 2] are committed by the Customs[13] -
Hoping you had a charming crossing
With kindest regards from both[14]
Always sincerely
[butterfly signature]
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Envelope:
'July 4, 1892'
To
E. G. Kennedy Esq.
Care of Gustave Lauser & Co
Printsellers &c
Garrick Street
Covent Garden . .
London
Angleterre
[postmark:] PARIS / R. DE VAUGIRARD / 8E 4 / JUIL / 92
[postmark on verso:] LONDON·W C. / K M / JY 5 / 92
Notes:
1. [4 July 1892]
Dated from the postmark and the date written on the envelope in another hand.
2. Edward Guthrie Kennedy
Edward Guthrie Kennedy (1849-1932), dealer with H. Wunderlich and Co., New York [more].
3. ALS
Written in purple ink.
4. Kitchen
The Kitchen (K.24a).
5. Price's Candle Factory
Price's Candle Works (K.154).
6. first
Double underlined.
7. Traghetto
The Traghetto, No.1 (K.190).
8. Press
In Venice in 1880 JW is said to have used an old wooden press for his largest plates, which at the time he found sometimes unsatisfactory, see #03600 and MacDonald, Margaret F., Palaces in the Night Whistler in Venice, Aldershot, 2001, p. 78.
9. Mr Lauser
Gustave Lauser (b. ca 1841), London print-seller [more].
10. Mr. Huish
Marcus Bourne Huish (1843 - d.1921), barrister, writer and art dealer, Director of the Fine Art Society [more].
11. Mr. Browne
Ernest George Brown (1853 or 1854-1915), assistant manager at the Fine Art Society [more].
12. Pictures
Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony (YMSM 56), The Last of Old Westminster (YMSM 39).
13. Customs
Some etchings sent to the Fine Art Society had been damaged by the Customs, see #02969.
14. both
JW and Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].