System Number: 09083
Date: [9 August 1864][1]
Author: JW and Henri Fantin-Latour[2]
Place: London
Recipient: Edwin Edwards[3]
Place: Sunbury on Thames
Repository: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Document Type: ALS
7. Lindsey Row
Old Battersea bridge
Chelsea
Tuesday
Dear Charles Price -
We intended to have written to you at once, but what with falling asleep in the evening and hoping to finish what seems an interminable picture[4] in the day time, it has been put off - I should like you so much to come up and dine with us on Friday, and bring if possible in a portfolio your etchings[5] with you - We could spend [p. 2] a jolly evening together and choose the necessary plate for Cadart[6] - to whom by the way, Fantin thinks it useless to send anything for the 15th - You have only to write and say that you will let him have one shortly - We are working hard and are most anxious to get through these two pictures[7] before leaving - So that for a few days more, the visit[8] to Sunbury will have to be put off - With our best compliments to [p. 3] Mrs Edwards[9], we are my dear Charles
tout à vous
Jim Whistler
et Fantin
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
Edwin Edwards EsqThames Bank House
Sunbury on Thames
S.W.
[stamp:] POSTAGE / ONE PENNY
[postmark:] LONDON S.W. / B / AU10 / 64
Notes:
1. [9 August 1864]
Dated from the postmark and the day of the week. The paper is postmarked 'A Pirie & Sons' and is simlar to that used in #09082.
2. Henri Fantin-Latour
Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), artist [more]. Fantin was on his third visit to England from July to October 1864, working on a number of commissions.
3. Edwin Edwards
Edwin Edwards (1823-1879), lawyer, painter and etcher [more].
4. picture
JW may have been working on Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl (YMSM 52) and possibly La Princesse du pays de la porcelaine (YMSM 50).
5. etchings
Edwards was a keen artist who, encouraged by JW and others, became a prolific etcher of landscape and architectural views. His most noted etched set was Old Inns of England (1873-1881).
6. Cadart
Alfred Cadart (1828-1875), dealer and print publisher [more].
7. two pictures
See above. JW had just completed Wapping (YMSM 35).
8. visit
The visit may not have been made until September (#09084).
9. Mrs Edwards
Elizabeth Ruth Edwards (ca 1833 - d.1907), née Enscombe, wife of Edwin Edwards [more].