Documents associated with: Maxwell, Hamilton
Record 2 of 4
System Number: 03524
Date: 16 February 1889
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Gray[1]
Place: Glasgow
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 7/58
Document Type: MsWc[2]
Saturday Feb. 16. '89. 1. p. m.
Telegram to.
Gray.
The Bailie [sic], 14 Exchange Square, Glasgow.
Had sent telegram to Institute[3] to following effect Shameful imposition critics ridiculous 'tis their nature to as Doctor Watts[4] beautifuly [sic] puts it but how could your Painters look at my Mother's portrait[5] and believe other possible brutal frame enough God knows please send photograph and deny officially in papers immediately thank Hamilton Maxwell[6] Whistler Publish above please Maxwell sent me sketch of blatant bogus business Titles[7] on back of canvas: "A Reverie" - "Daybreak" - "Dispersing Night melting into Day"
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Notes:
1. Gray
Gray, editor of The Baillie, Glasgow [more].
2. MsWc
Written by Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more], following up a wire to R. Walker (#03522). This was published on 20 February 1889 in The Bailie (see #00233).
3. Institute
Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
4. Doctor Watts
Dr Isaac Watts (1674-1748), hymnwriter [more]. He wrote 'Let dogs delight / To bark and bite / For God hath made them so', Divine Songs for Children, [London], 1715.
5. Mother's portrait
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101).
6. Maxwell
Hamilton Maxwell (1830-1923), watercolour landscape painter [more]
7. Titles
The remainder is written by JW. These paintings were not by JW, although shown under his name in the 28th Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1889 (cat. no. 472).