System Number: 01800
Date: 10 January 1881
Author: Henry Graves and Co.[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler G166
Document Type: PD/Ms
J. A. McNeill Whistler Esq
Jany 10th 1881
TO HENRY GRAVES & COMPANY,
PRINTSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS,
6, PALL MALL, LONDON, S. W.
| Picture. Portrait of Mrs Whistler[2] by Whistler } | 200 | - | - | |
| Received today on account - | H G & Co[3] | 50 | - | |
| H Graves | 150 | - | - | |
| The balance to be paid within a year. | ||||
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Notes:
1. Henry Graves and Co.
Printsellers and dealers. On 9 September 1878, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101) was one of two pictures deposited by Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more], as security on a loan of £100 from Graves (see A. Graves to JW, #01797). This receipt records JW's payment of £50 on an eventual debt of £200 owed to Graves.
2. Portrait of Mrs Whistler
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101).
3. H G & Co
These initials are written over a one penny stamp.