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System Number: 13051
Date: 3 May 1888
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: H. Wunderlich and Co.[1]
Place: [New York]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler NB 1/81/1
Document Type: MsD[2]


81 Messrs Herman Wunderlich & Co in a/c with J. McNeill Whistler 81
1888 Number   proofs      
May 3rd 1 Clothes Exchange No. 1[3] 1 12 12 0
2 Little Sweet Shop 1 10 10 "
4 Flower Market - Brussels 1 10 10 "
6 St James Place - Houndsditch 1 10 10 "
7 High Street Brussels 1 10 10 "
8 Wimpole Street 1  3  3 "
9 Cutler Street - Houndsditch 1 10 10 "
11 The Young Tree 1  6  6 "
13 Grande Place - Brussels 1 12 12 "
15 The Palace - Brussels 1 12 12 "
16 Battersea Bridge No. 3 1 10 10 "
17 The Beach Ostende 1  5  5 "
21 Maunder's Fruit Fish Shop 1  8  8 "
23 Windsor Castle (dry point) 1 10 10 "
24 Little Nude Figure (first state) 1  8  8 "
26 The Little Nurse - Grays Inn 1  6  6 "
27 The Barrow 1 12 12 "
28 Alderney Street 1  6  6 "
31 Charing Cross Bridge 1  6  6 "
32 Court Yard Brussels 1 12 12 "
38 Doorway Gray's Inn (first state) 1 10 10 "
39 Little Green Grocers Shop - Chelsea 1  6  6 "
40 The Cottage Door 1  4  4 "
41 The Steps - Milmans Row 1  5  5  " 
  carried over £ 213[4]  3
[p. 2]
1888 Number Brought Forward — Proofs 213  3 0
May 3 42 Petite Rue des Bouchers[5] (first state) 1 10 10 "
47 Nocturne Salute - (rare state) 1 21  0 "
49 Grande Place (first state) 1 15 15 "
52 Dipping the Flag 1  8  8 "
53 Turret Ship 1 10 10 "
54 The Monitors 1 10 10 "
55 The Troopship 1 10 10 "
59 Return to Tilbury 1  6  6 "
60 Dry Docks Southampton 1  6  6 "
62 Visitors Boat. 1 10 10  " 
    £ 323  8  0
  20% discount   64 13  7
      258 14  5
  Minus contra Acc:     3 18 11
  Received cheque   254[6] 15  6

 


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Notes:

1.  H. Wunderlich and Co.
Hermann Wunderlich (ca 1839 - d.1892), print dealer [more].

2.  MsD
This is a record of etchings sold by Messrs Hermann Wunderlich, New York, written in the hand of Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more]. The document is written over two facing pages of a ledger book; the numbers '81' in each upper corner are printed in the ledger; the heading ('Messrs Herman ... Whistler') spreads across the tops of both pages. Below this account appears #13659.

3.  Clothes Exchange No. 1 ... The Steps - Milmans Row
Etchings can be identified as Clothes-Exchange, No.1 (K.287); Village Sweet-shop (K.251); Flower-Market, Brussels (K.359); St.James's Place, Houndsditch (K.290); High Street, Brussels (K.358); Hansom Cab (Wimpole Street) (K.286); Cutler Street, Hounsditch (K.292); The Young Tree (K.296); Grand Place, Brussels (K.362); Palaces, Brussels (K.361); Sketch of Battersea Bridge (K.311); The Beach, Ostend (K.354); probably Little Maunder's (K.279) and Windsor, No.2 (K.330); Little Nude Figure (K.340); The Little Nurse (K.302); The Barrow, Brussels (K.357); Alderney Street (K.238); Charing Cross Railway Bridge (K.310); Courtyard, Brussels (K.355); Doorway, Gray's Inn (K.300); possibly Fruitshop (K.259) or T.A.Nash's Fruit-Shop (K.263); or Woods's Fruit-Shop (K.265); Cottage Door (K.250); 'The Steps: Milman's Row' may be Steps, Gray's Inn (K.295) or Rag-Shop, Milman's Row (K.272).

4.  213 3 0
Double underlined.

5.  Petite Rue des Bouchers ... Maunder's Fish Shop
Nocturne: Salute (K.226); Grand Place, Brussels (K.362); Dipping the Flag (K.325); The Turret Ship (K.321); Monitors (K.318); Troop Ships (K.319); Return to Tilbury (K.327); Dry-Dock, Southampton (K.322); and Visitor's Boat (K.320).

6.  254 15 6
Double underlined.