System Number: 11902
Date: 1 January 1879
Author: James Anderson Rose[1]
Place: London
Recipient: Charles Augustus Howell[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC
Document Type: Ms/PDS
"ARRANGEMENT IN GREY AND BLACK,"
PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER'S MOTHER[3],
BY
JAMES A. McNEILL WHISTLER.
ENGRAVED IN PURE MEZZOTINT
BY
RICHARD JOSEY[4],
UNDER THE IMMEDIATE SUPERVISION OF THE PAINTER.
SIZE, 14 IN. X 12 ½ IN.
[butterfly signature]
PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
SIGNED ARTIST'S PROOFS £3 3 0
LETTERED PROOFS 2 2 0
PRINTS 1 1 0
NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS RECEIVED BY
CHARLES A. HOWELL,
CHALDON HOUSE, FULHAM, S. W.
[p. 2] Please enter my name as a Subscriber to the Portrait of Mrs Whistler in accordance with the form hereto appended as filled and signed by me
| Price to Subscribers | Number of Copies | Name and address |
| Signed Artists proofs £3. 3. 0 | 2 | J. Anderson Rose 11 Salisbury Street Strand |
| Lettered proofs £2. 2. 0 | ||
| Prints £1. 1. 0 |
Date 1st January 1879
To [sentence incomplete]
This document is protected by copyright.
Notes:
1. James Anderson Rose
James Anderson Rose (1819-1890), solicitor [more]. Since this document remained in Rose's possession it is not clear if he ever sent it. A revised subscription form, including the manuscript additions on the verso (but not including Rose's name and address) was printed and distributed (see #02838).
2. Charles Augustus Howell
Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more].
3. PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER'S MOTHER
After the Whistler v Ruskin trial, A. Graves was arranging for the exhibition of Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101) before it was returned for engraving to Josey (Graves to JW, 26 November 1878, #01798). Howell organised subscriptions, and on 1 May 1879 JW sold Howell the copyright, at which time the portrait was still being engraved (#02835). The engraving was probably published by the end of 1879.
4. RICHARD JOSEY
Richard Josey (1840-1906), reproductive engraver [more].