System Number: 13067
Date: 5 August 1894[1]
Author: JW
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: Charles Lang Freer[2]
Place: Detroit
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler NB 1/92
Document Type: MsD[3]
Charles L. Freer
Ferry Avenue Detroit, Michigan
August 5th. 1894
| 1 | The novel - Draped figure[4] | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2 | The Seated figure | 2. | 6. | 6. | 0 |
| 3 |
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2. | 4. | 4 | 0. |
| 4 | Nude figure - lying down. | 2. | 4. | 4. | 0 |
| 5 | The Long Balcony. } Paris windows Carnot's funeral | 2. | 4. | 4. | 0 |
| 6 | The little Balcony } Paris windows Carnot's funeral | 2. | 4. | 4. | 0 |
| 7 | The tête à tête. Garden | 2. | 4. | 4. | 0 |
| 8 | The Long Gallery - Louvre | 2. | 4. | 4. | 0 |
| 9 | The Terrace Luxembourg. | 2. | 4. | 4. | 0 |
| 10 | The Draped figure - leaning | 2. | 4. | 4. | 0 |
| 11 | Le Rétameur de L'Impasse. des Carmelites. | 2. | 4. | 4. | 0. |
| Received cheque - Sept - | £ | 48. | 6. |
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Notes:
1. 5 August 1894
The lithographs were sent on 8 August 1894, see JW's letter to Freer, #11570.
2. Charles Lang Freer
Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), industrialist, collector and founder of the Freer Gallery of Art [more].
3. MsD
Written in the hand of Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more]. Listed in Merrill, Linda, With Kindest Regards. The Correspondence of Charles Lang Freer and James McNeill Whistler, 1890-1903, Washington and London, 1995, pp. 202-03.
4. The novel - Draped figure
'The novel - Draped figure ... des Carmelites' records the sale of lithographs The Novel: Girl Reading (C.32), The Draped Figure, Seated (C.72), The Draped Figure, Back View (C.77), Nude Model, Reclining (C.73), The Long Balcony (C.82), The Little Balcony (C.83), Tête-à-tête in the Garden (C.90), The Long Gallery, Louvre (C.86), The Terrace, Luxembourg (C.87), Little Draped Figure, Leaning (C.76), and The Whitesmiths, Impasse des Carmélites (C.92). C. 82 and C. 83 record the funeral of Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), President of France from 1887-1894 [more], who was assassinated in Lyon on 24 June 1894. See also references in JW to J. W. Gleeson White, #10077, B. Whistler to E. Wuerpel, #12840.