Documents associated with: Exposition, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1888
Record 13 of 30
System Number: 00906
Date: 27 April 1888
Author: Walter Dowdeswell[1]
Place: London
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler D112
Document Type: ALS
DOWDESWELL & DOWDESWELLS,
FINE ART PUBLISHERS,
160, NEW BOND STREET,
LONDON, W.
April 27th, 1888
TELEPHONE NO. 3779.
Dear Whistler.
The two pictures came this morning - - Aren't they lovely?
Mr Chapman[2] told me in his letter yesterday, to return the pictures to him if we were not prepared to become personally responsible for them! - What a funny man he must be! I wrote & told him we took no responsibility at all. - & that we knew of nothing further that you or any one else could do to cove[r] him [p. 2] against loss or injury - than you had already done - I suppose you have written him that you will renew the policies if the pictures are detained beyond the dates specified in them?
The Munich picture ought to go to Dicksee's[3] at once[4] - or it will be too late - so let Kerly[5] bring it back with him, if you can -
Loose [sic] no time.
Yours [truly?]
Walter Dowdeswell
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Notes:
1. Walter Dowdeswell
Walter Dowdeswell (1858-1929), art dealer [more].
2. Mr Chapman
Alfred Chapman (1839-1917), engineer and collector [more]. Chapman had agreed to lend Nocturne: Blue and Silver - Bognor (YMSM 100) to the Exposition, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1888 and Nocturne: Grey and Gold - Chelsea Snow (YMSM 174) to the 3rd Internationale Kunst-Austellung, Munich, 1888. However, there seems to have been some difficulty arranging insurance cover whilst the works were in transit. See A. Chapman to JW, #00578, #00579, #00580, #00581, W. Dowdeswell to JW, #00905 and A. Chapman to Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, #00582.
3. Dicksee's
Dicksee & Co, fine art agents. The Munich exhibition opened in July.
4. at once
Double underlined.
5. Kerly
Not identified.