System Number: 01959
Date: 16 December 1887
Author: Charles James Whistler Hanson[1]
Place: London
Recipient: Craibe Angus and Son[2]
Place: Glasgow
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler H60
Document Type: ALcS
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The Vale
Dec 16 1887
Dear Sir,
Mr Whistler has not been very well lately, or your letter[3] would have been answered before.
He is now, however, prepared to send you proofs.
The Naval Review Etchings[4] are at the following prices:
Return to Tilbury 6 " 6 " 0 Landing Stage Cowes 8 " 8 " 0 Dry docks Southampton 6 " 6 " 0 H. M's Fleet - The Troopship 10 " 10 " 0 Naval Review - Monitors 10 " 10 " 0 " " - Visitors Boat 10 " 10 " 0 Bunting 10 " 10 " 0 H. M's Fleet - Evening 10 " 10 " 0 Dipping the Flag 8 " 8 " 0 H. M s Fleet - The Gunboat 10 " 10 " 0 Children Portsmouth 7 " 7 " 0 Tilbury 7 " 7 " 0
Kindly say whether you are prepared to keep one or two sets of the above as you have seen them
Besides these are several others proofs - some quite recent, viz:-
Railway Arch[5] 8 " 8 " 0 Barrow 10 " 10 " 0 Scaffolding 10 " 10 " 0 Flower Market 10 " 10 " 0 Petticoat Lane 7 " 7 " 0 House of the Swan 10 " 10 " 0 Regent's Quadrant 7 " 7 " 0 High Street Brussels 8 " 8 " 0 Wild West No 1 10 " 10 " 0 Fish Quay Ostend 8 " 8 " 0 " " No 2 10 " 10 " 0 Beach Ostend 5 " 5 " 0 " " No 3 6 " 6 " 0 Canal Ostend 4 " 4 " 0 Clothes Exchange No 1 12 " 12 " 0 Grand Place Bruxelles 12 " 12 " 0 St James Place 10 " 10 " 0 Palace Brussels 12 " 12 " 0 Fleur dis [sic] Lis passage 10 " 10 " 0 Cutler Street 10 " 10 " 0 And several others
Upon these transactions with him, Mr Whistler allows you [p. 2] 20% for cash
Re Old Etchings
Mr Whistler has two splendid proofs in fine condition of Finette[6], The first in the finished state, the second in the first state, very rare, before the landscape through the window, vide Wedmore's catalogue[7] No. 54[.] For the first he will take twenty guineas, for the second thirty guineas, or for the two forty five guineas.
On this transaction with him Mr Whistler allows you no discount, as they are rare works by themselves, which you can sell for what you like, being different to the current etching, for which he allows you 20% in order that you may sell them at his own fixed prices.
Re Picture
Mr Whistler has several small oil and water colour, [sic] Can be sent to be shown to your client if required.
Re Etchings in Your Hands.
You have still in your possession the following proofs
Lambeth[8] 8 " 8 " 0 Tyzack Whitely 8 " 8 " 0 Guitar Player 12 " 12 " 0 Portrait 5 " 5 " 0
Kindly return the same at once, or if sold send cheque.
Yours Truly
Charles J. Hanson
private secretary.
To
Messrs Craibe Angus & Son
159 Queen Street
Glasgow.
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Notes:
1. Charles James Whistler Hanson
Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more].
2. Craibe Angus and Son
J. Craibe Angus, art dealer, of Craibe Angus and Son, Glasgow [more]; and William Craibe Angus (1830-1899), Glasgow art dealer [more].
3. your letter
Angus had written to JW on 7 December 1887 (#00176). He replied to this letter on 19 December (#00178).
4. Naval Review Etchings
'Naval Review set', 1887 (K. 316-331) (excat 7).
5. Railway Arch
The list comprised recent London and Belgian etchings, Railway-Arch (K.268), The Barrow, Brussels (K.357), Savoy Scaffolding (K.267), Flower-Market, Brussels (K.359), Petticoat Lane (K.285), Regent's Quadrant (K.239), Wild West, Buffalo Bill (K.313), Wild West (K.314), The Bucking Horse (K.315), Clothes-Exchange, No.1 (K.287), St.James's Place, Houndsditch (K.290), Fleur De Lys Passage (K.289), Cutler Street, Hounsditch (K.292), House of the Swan, Brussels (K.363), High Street, Brussels (K.358), Fish-Market, Ostend (K.349), The Beach, Ostend (K.354), Canal, Ostend (K.353), Grand Place, Brussels (K.362) and Palaces, Brussels (K.361).
7. Wedmore's catalogue
Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Whistler's Etchings: a Study and a Catalogue, London, 1886.
8. Lambeth
'Lambeth' is probably an early etching of London, but can not be identified by this title. The other early etchings mentioned here are Eagle Wharf (K.41) and The Guitar Player (K.140), but 'Portrait' is too vague a title to be identified.