Documents associated with: Annual Exhibition of Sketches, Pictures, and Photography, Dublin Sketching Club, Leinster Hall, Dublin, 1884
Record 12 of 12
System Number: 11128
Date: [December 1884/1885?][1]
Author: JW
Place: [London][2]
Recipient: George Henschel[3]
Place: [London]
Repository: Published
Document Type: PLfc[4]
[...] I shall be charmed to see you again in the Studio, and I meant to have called and told you so today - but we might all be in Siberia as far as the facility for getting about goes.
If it ever thaws, or if you can skate, why not try some afternoon this week [...]
I will give you a cup of tea and show you my Sarasate[5] if you have not already seen it.
[butterfly signature]
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Notes:
1. [December 1884/1885?]
Dated by reference to portrait, and to cold weather.
2. [London]
The sales catalogue (see below) gives JW's address as 'Fulham Road'.
3. George Henschel
According to Maggs, the recipient was Sir Isidore George Henschel (1850-1934), singer, composer, conductor, and Professor at the Royal College of Music [more].
4. PLfc
Extract published in Maggs Sale Catalogue 38, Autumn 1919 (cat. no 2234). The original has not been located.
5. Sarasate
Arrangement in Black: Portrait of Señor Pablo de Sarasate (YMSM 315) was completed by the autumn of 1884, when JW thought of sending it to the Annual Exhibition of Sketches, Pictures, and Photography, Dublin Sketching Club, Leinster Hall, Dublin, 1884.