System Number: 02974
Date: [24 November 1895][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Lyme Regis]
Recipient: Marcus Bourne Huish[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 3/37
Document Type: ALd
[drawing[3] of a pennant with a butterfly in the centre upon a black square]
Flag pale Yellow - cool in tone -
Square - properly let in, pale Brown - like the covers of my old Catalogues -
Butterfly - Black.
Trefoil. & small dot, the pale Yellow of the flag again -
Pretty isn't it?
[butterfly signature]
[p. 2 partial sketch of the flag]
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Notes:
1. [24 November 1895]
Huish replied on 25 November 1895, #01319.
2. Marcus Bourne Huish
Marcus Bourne Huish (1843 - d.1921), barrister, writer and art dealer, Director of the Fine Art Society [more]. JW's exhibition, Mr Whistler's Lithographs, The Fine Art Society, London, 1895 opened in December 1895. The flag was part of the exhibition design.
3. drawing
r. and v.: Flag for a lithograph exhibition at the Fine Art Society (M.1445).