Documents associated with: Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, 1894
Record 8 of 23
System Number: 08271
Date: [3 April 1894][1]
Author: JW
Place: [Paris]
Recipient: David Croal Thomson[2]
Place: London
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Manuscript Division, Pennell-Whistler Collection
Document Type: ALS[3]
Do let me know if the Old Battersea bridge[4] is going to be lent for the Antwerp Exposition[5] -
Please write by return -
[butterfly signature]
This document is protected by copyright.
Envelope:
[postcard:]
Monsieur D. C. Thomson -Goupil Galleries -
5. Regent Street -
London.
Angleterre
[stamp:] POSTE / REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / 10
[postmark:] PARIS. 17 / R[UE] DES HALLES / 5E 3 / AVRIL / 94
Notes:
1. [3 April 1894]
Dated from postmark.
2. David Croal Thomson
David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), art dealer [more].
3. ALS
'18C' was written in red ink at top left, '92' in pencil at bottom of p.1 on the address side.
4. Old Battersea bridge
Possibly Brown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge (YMSM 33), which Thomson sold for Alexander ('Aleco') Ionides (1840-1898), businessman [more], for over £500, before August 1895.
5. Antwerp Exposition
Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, 1894.