Document associated with: [Drawings by Vierge], London, 1893/1894
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System Number: 04578
Date: [June 1893/1894?][1]
Author: Joseph Pennell[2]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler P218
Document Type: ALS
14, BUCKINGHAM STREET,
STRAND. W. C.
Dear Mr. Whistler
I have recd the Vers Et Prose[3] - The lithograph[4] comes stunningly dont it.
The Show of Vierges[5] drawings is just open. - Vierge has been covered with glory, and your friends the critics have tried to smother me with mud
Yours truly
Joseph Pennell
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Notes:
1. [June 1893/1894?]
Dated from the reference to Mallarmé, Stéphane, Vers et Prose; Morceaux Choisis ... [par] Stéphane Mallarmé, Paris, 1893.
2. Joseph Pennell
Joseph Pennell (1860-1926), printer and illustrator, JW's biographer [more].
3. Vers Et Prose
Mallarmé, Stéphane, Vers et Prose; Morceaux Choisis ... [par] Stéphane Mallarmé, Paris, 1893.
4. lithograph
Stéphane Mallarmé (C.60) was drawn as the frontispiece for Vers et Prose.
5. Vierges
Daniel Urrabieta y Vierge (1851-1904), illustrator [more]. Pennell had written 'Comments on the Drawings of Daniel Urrabietta Vierge' in Pablo de Segovia, London (Unwin), 1892. August F. Jaccaci described Vierge as 'The Father of Modern Illustration' in The Century, June 1893.