UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Corresponence of James McNeil Whistler
Home > On-line Edition > Transcription/Database Record

the on-line edition

System Number: 13028
Date: 17 November 1888
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Dowdeswell and Dowdeswells[1]
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler NB 1/37/2a
Document Type: MsD[2]


Messrs Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells. 37[3]
Nov 17. 1888 guineas                        proofs      
number 12 Passage de l'Opera[4] - (1) corresponding with D & D's set 1 12 12  0
  10 Milman's Row (large) - (2) 1 10 10 -
  8 Gray's Inn Place - (3) 1  8  8 -
  8 Bird Shop - (4) 1  8  8 -
  12 Bird Cages - (5) 1 12 12 -
  4 Church Doorway - (6) 1  4  4 -
  8 Gold House - (7) 1  8  8 -
  12 Archway Brussels - (8) 1 12 12 -
  12 Barber's Shop - (9) 1 12 12 -
  10 Jubilee Place - Chelsea - (10) 1 10 10 -
  10 York Road - Westminster - (11) 1 10 10 -
  10 Butcher [sic] Street - (12) (Brussels) 1 10 10
        121 16
    20% discount for cash   24  7  2
    Received By bill at 3 months & 4% interest   97  8 10

 


This document is protected by copyright.


Notes:

1.  Dowdeswell and Dowdeswells
Print dealers and publishers. This sale was followed by another on 10 December 1888 (draft version #13656; final version #13029).

2.  MsD
Written by Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more].

3.  '37'
Printed in top right corner of this ledger book page.

4.  Passage de l'Opera
Etchings sold: Passages de l'Opéra (K.418); Rag-Shop, Milman's Row (K.272); Gray's Inn Place (K.297); Bird-Cages, Chelsea (K.276); Bird-Cages, Drury Lane (K.281); Church Doorway, Edgemere (K.303); Gold-House, Brussels (K.360); Archway, Brussels (K.366); The Barber's (K.271); Jubilee Place, Chelsea (K.274); York Street, Westminster (K.270); Butter Street, Brussels (K.364). There are three etchings with similar titles: Butcher's Shop, Sandwich (K.308), Butter Street, Brussels (K.364) and Little Butter Street, Brussels (K.367).