System Number: 09041
Date: [30 July 1891][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: Alfred J. Chapman[2]
Place: Liverpool
Repository: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Document Type: W
[Telegraph form:]
[Royal coat of arms]
POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS. [...]
[postmark:] LIVERPOOL / TELDELIVERY / 30 JY / 91
HANDED IN AT THE Queens Road OFFICE AT 12 33 p.M., RECEIVED HERE AT .M.
TO Reply Paid Fawcett[3]
Lpool
(1)
Astonished & mortified to learn that you purchased notwithstanding my warning years ago now Jack wire Dowdeswell[4] deliver over the whole thing[5] to me today & I will paint you (p. 2) (2)[6] some other picture worthy of hanging beside your real masterpieces - your own portrait or wifes[7] if you like[.] I shall be in Liverpool next week hanging the Walker Gallery[8].
Whistler.
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Notes:
1. [30 July 1891]
Dated from postmark.
2. Alfred J. Chapman
Alfred Chapman (1839-1917), engineer and collector [more].
3. Fawcett
The name of Alfred Chapman's company is Fawcett, Preston & Co.
4. Dowdeswell
C. W. or one of his sons, Charles and Walter Dowdeswell, of Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, art dealers.
5. thing
Pink and Grey: Three Figures (YMSM 89).
6. (2)
Page two of this document is a duplicate form as seen at page one, the only difference being that the place 'handed in at' has been given as 'Queens', the time of dispatch is blank, but the time of delivery has been added as '1 0 p.M.'. 'Fawcett' is written in the 'TO' section.
7. wifes
JW never painted Mrs Chapman.
8. Walker Gallery
JW was on the selection committee for 21st Autumn Exhibition of Pictures, Corporation of Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1891.