Documents associated with: Fair Women, Grafton Galleries, London, 1894
Record 5 of 19
System Number: 05801
Date: 16 January 1894
Author: David Croal Thomson[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler T146
Document Type: ALS
THE GOUPIL GALLERY
[Royal coat of arms]
BOUSSOD VALADON & CO.
5, REGENT STREET, S. W.
TELEGRAMS, BOUSSOD, LONDON.
London
16 Jany. 1894.
Dear Mr Whistler,
The lithographs looked complete & elegant in their new toilettes & are all that the most fastidious could desire.
I hope to see the Grafton[2] on Thursday & will write - It opens on Saturday.
Not much news: - we may have some shortly, but nothing [decided?]
[p. 2] I am glad to hear you are so busy.
Kindly think of the Lithograph for the Art Journal[3].
'Arry[4]. There was a very short remark in the Times[5] yesterday (15th) saying his works were sometimes like Rosetti[6] [sic] & sometimes like Monet[7], & that he would have been better to keep the collection for his private friends.
Enclosed is his reply[8]. Also a note that a man insisted on leaving with postage
Yours vy truly
D. C. Thomson
J McN Whistler Eq
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Notes:
1. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].
2. Grafton
Several lithographs were shown at the exhibition, Fair Women, Grafton Galleries, London, 1894; see #03364; Thomson's letter suggests that they were newly framed.
3. Lithograph for the Art Journal
Thomson had originally suggested using Vitré: The Canal (C.63), then Conversation under the Statue, Luxembourg Gardens (C.69), and seevral other lithographs were considered before eventually they agreed on Nursemaids: 'Les Bonnes du Luxembourg' (C.81), which was published in The Art Journal, vol. 46, no. 120, December 1894.
4. 'Arry
Henry ('Arry') Quilter (1851-1907), advocate and art critic [more].
5. Times
The Times, 15 January 1894.
6. Rosetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), artist and poet [more].
7. Monet
Claude Monet (1840-1926), artist [more].
8. his reply
Not located.