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The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler
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System Number: 02856
Date: [January 1880][1]
Author: Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells
Place: London
Recipient: Charles Augustus Howell[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 12/31/1-2
Document Type: PD



                   MESSRS.
          DOWDESWELL & DOWDESWELLS
HAVE THE PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THE PUBLICATION
            OF TWO NEW ETCHINGS BY
         JAMES ABBOT McNEIL WHISTLER.

                                     £   S.  D.
THE TWO SHIPS[3]. 30 PROOFS, NUMBERED   3   3   0
             PLATE DESTROYED.

TATTING[4]. 25 PROOFS, NUMBERED . . .   1   1   0
             PLATE DESTROYED.

(A COMPANION TO THE MUFF[5], BY THE SAME ARTIST.)

          DOWDESWELL & DOWDESWELLS,
 PUBLISHERS OF AND DEALERS IN WORKS OF FINE ART,
           36, CHANCERY LANE, W. C.

     PLEASE ENTER MY NAME FOR . . . PROOFS OF
    THE TWO SHIPS AND . . . OF TATTING.
            NAME . . . .
            ADDRESS . . . .
          . . . 1880.

  TO MESSRS. DOWDESWELL,
    36, CHANCERY LANE, W. C.





 This plate sold by me to Messrs Dowdeswell & destroyed -[6] 


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Notes:

1.  [January 1880]
Dated from reference to the etchings in E. G. Brown to JW, #01107.

2.  Charles Augustus Howell
Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more].

3.  THE TWO SHIPS
Two Ships (K.148).

4.  TATTING
Tatting (K.112).

5.  THE MUFF
The Muff (K.113).

6.  This plate sold ... destroyed
Note written in the hand of C. A. Howell.