Documents associated with: 28th Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1889
Record 2 of 9
System Number: 03521
Date: 12 February 1889
Author: JW
Place: [London]
Recipient: Robert Walker[1]
Place: Glasgow
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler LB 7/56/1
Document Type: MsWc[2]
Telegram to[3]
Walker, 175 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
Feb. 12. 89 / a. m.
Shameful imposition critics ridiculous their nature to vide Doctor Watts[4] but how could your painters look at Portrait[5] and believe other possible brutal frame enough God knows please send photograph and deny officially in papers immediately thank Hamilton Maxwell[6] Whistler
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Notes:
1. Robert Walker
Robert Walker (ca 1841 - d.1900), Secretary of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts [more]. Secretary of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
2. MsWc
Written in the hand of Charles James Whistler Hanson (1870-1935), engineer, son of JW and Louisa Fanny Hanson [more]. This was followed by another wire on 16 February (#03522).
3. Telegram to
Double underlined.
4. vide Doctor Watts
Dr Isaac Watts (1674-1748), hymnwriter [more]. He wrote 'Let dogs delight / To bark and bite / For God hath made them so', Divine Songs for Children, [London], 1715.
5. Portrait
A painting said to be by JW, Anon., Dream of Morning off Gravesend(z207), owned by Andrew J. Kirkpatrick (d. 1900), merchant and collector, Chairman, Council of the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts [more], had been exhibited at 28th Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow, 1889 (cat. no. 472), as well as one by JW, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (YMSM 101). See also JW's letter to Robert Walker, 28 February 1889, #03527.
6. Hamilton Maxwell
Hamilton Maxwell (1830-1923), watercolour landscape painter [more].