Documents associated with: Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1889
Record 18 of 62
System Number: 00551
Date: 14 March 1889
Author: John Cavafy[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler C52
Document Type: ALS
2, UPPER BERKELEY STREET,
PORTMAN SQUARE. W.
March 14. '89
Dear Whistler
Pray let my father's 'Balcony'[2] picture be exhibited at the Paris International Exposition[3], since you wish it - But he feels, as we all do, that it is a little trying to be without the picture for so long - I am sure that you will return it to us as early as possible after closure of the Exposition - With every hope [p. 2] that the engraving[4] & exhibition of the picture may be advantageous to yourself
Believe me
Sincerely yours
John Cavafy -
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
Cavafy -[5]
'Correspondence between
J. Cavafy & J. M. W.
re. loan of "The Balcony"
etc. for Exhibition.
1886-92.'
Notes:
1. John Cavafy
Dr John Cavafy (ca 1839-1901), physician and collector, son of G. J. Cavafy [more].
2. father's 'Balcony'
George John Cavafy (1805-1891), merchant, partner in G. J. Cavafy and Company [more], owned Variations in Flesh Colour and Green: The Balcony (YMSM 56).
3. Paris International Exposition
The Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1889.
4. engraving
It was engraved by Fréderic Florian (b. 1858), alias 'Rognon', wood engraver [more], for Child, Theodore, 'American Artists at the Paris Exhibition,' Harpers New Monthly Magazine, vol. 79, no. 472, September 1889, pp. 489-521.
5. Cavafy
Written in pencil. The note below was written in another hand in blue ink.