Documents associated with: sea pieces
Record 14 of 30
System Number: 08349
Date: [3 March 1892][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: David Croal Thomson[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection, PWC 3
Document Type: ALS[3]
[date stamp:] GOUPIL AND COMPANY
4 MAR. 92
SUCCESSORS / BOUSSOD VALADON & CO.
Dear Sir -
In great haste -
Poster - No -
This is no copy of what I sent - I do not like the aesthetic small letters without capitals -
Copy mine - will be all right -
Cards Enclose revise -
Please send me Ruskins Modern Painters[4] -
Will write -
J. McN. Whistler
over
[p. 2] Grau[5] . To scrape and regild frame to Miss Alexander[6] -
Never mind about painting on frame - will do that myself by & bye -
Gold same soft colour as on portrait of my Mother[7] -
Shannon J. J.[8] Try again for sea piece -
Everything promises splendid -
Cuttings Send them .
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Notes:
1. [3 March 1892]
This is a reply to Thomson's letter of 3 March 1892, #05694. Goupil's stamp records the receipt of this letter, probably on the day after it was written, and Thomson replied on that same day (#05695).
2. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more]. He was organising Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet Pieces, Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Goupil Gallery, London, 1892.
3. ALS
''13B', 'Monday after 10-30' and 'Portrait' were added at the top of p. 1, in various hands, one of which is probably Thomson.
4. Ruskins Modern Painters
Ruskin, John, Modern Painters, London, 1843-60. Written by John Ruskin (1819-1900), critic, social reformer and artist [more].
5. Grau
Frederick H. Grau (d. 1894/1895), picture framer [more].
6. Miss Alexander
Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander (YMSM 129).
7. Mother
Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101).
8. Shannon J. J.
James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923), genre and portrait painter [more], owned Sea and Rain (YMSM 65).