Documents associated with: 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884
Record 16 of 69
System Number: 08719
Date: [20 March 1884/1886?][1]
Author: Walter Dowdeswell[2]
Place: London
Recipient: [none]
Repository: Library of Congress
Call Number: Rare Books and Manuscripts Division
Document Type: MsD[3]
DOWDESWELL [& DOWDESWELLS]
FINE ART PUBLISH[ERS]
TWO DOORS FROM THE GROSVENOR GALLERY,
133, NEW BOND STREET,
March 20th, 1884.
TELEPHONE NO. 3779.
Dear Sir -
[p. 2] Although Mr W's style is unsurpassed his pictures do not primarily charm by their beauty & [trick?] or art of "picture making" - they fascinate us first because they because this they tell us that he has looked long and hard at Nature show us well what he has seen and he has well learned to see well -
[p. 3] Of those marked x, twelve extra impressions will be taken at and sold separately at guineas each -
The plates will then be destroyed and impressions taken to show their condition.
London.
Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells.
Publishers etc.
133 New Bond Street W.
1886.
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Notes:
1. [20 March 1884/1886?]
Dated from first and last dates on document.
2. Walter Dowdeswell
Walter Dowdeswell (1858-1929), art dealer [more].
3. MsD
This is a series of notes and jottings in Dowdeswell's hand. The first part may relate to JW's exhibition 'Notes' - 'Harmonies' - 'Nocturnes', Messrs Dowdeswell, London, 1884. The second page appears to be notes for the prospectus for Mr Whistler's Etchings of Venice, 1880 (the first 'Venice Set') (K. 183-189, 191-195). (excat 5), to be published shortly by Dowdeswell's. The first proofs were delivered on 2 April 1886 (receipt, #00863).