Documents associated with: Centenary Loan Exhibition of Lithography, South Kensington Museum, London, 1898
Record 2 of 3
System Number: 05521
Date: 1 December 1898
Author: Arthur James Richens Trendell[1]
Place: London
Recipient: Company of the Butterfly[2]
Place: London
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler S166
Document Type: ALS
[crown over oval crest with floral motif:] V R
SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT
SOUTH KENSINGTON
1st December. 1898.
Gentlemen,
I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to convey to you Their thanks for the examples of Lithography which you have been so good as to place at the disposal of the Department of Science and Art in connection with the Centenary[3] Loan Exhibition of Lithographs recently opened at the South Kensington Museum.
I am,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant.
A. J. R. Trendell
The Company of the Butterfly,
2, Hinde Street,
Manchester Square,
W.
[illegible initials]
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Notes:
1. Arthur James Richens Trendell
Arthur James Richens Trendell (1836-1909), barrister and civil servant [more].
2. Company of the Butterfly
The company founded by JW in April 1897 in order to sell his works direct to the public. However, it was not a success and lasted only from 1898 to 1901.
3. Centenary
It was the centenary of the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), inventor [more]. See H. T. Wood to JW, #05504.