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10 issue of The Dramatic flovi.ew» It also includes a reiteration
of Godwin's defence of nntiquorianiom as m artistic pursuit.
In his "Tor 0*Clock" of February 20, 1885 f ahi^ler had
complained:
are those also, sombre of mien, and wise with
the wisdom of books, who frequent raur.ej-ac; and burrow
in crypts. ..True clerks of the collection, they nix
i icnorant.'la v.dth rxibition, and, reducing Art to statistics,
they "file" the fifteenth-century arid "pigeon-hole"
the
If this was directed at hia friond G-o< van, it was unkind (but
not uncharacteristic) of .liintler* Godvdn replied:
il'ne Arc:ia,oologist or Antiquary, however much ^r
•vhistler may think to the contrary, is ivonetliing nore
then a frequenter of museums and a patron of pigoon-
"liolorj. His method or ment, 1 attitude ia of cnecir.l
rdfmficance; and you can no more make him off-Iirnd
than you c n make en artict: indeed he must have some
of the artict's qualities, or, at Icacri, be olc to
iaagine in his mind's eye the features of the past
and interpret ito records and aemorials.
Godwin had attempted in July the mcna^oraont of a fully r-rofc;.
cion' 1 company, \.hon he presented 'llio pool's Revenge at the
Oiicrr Conique, -dth Vezin as Bertuccio: the combination of hot
weather anc- Taylor's olrl-fr,shioneC lay ITT, not pro-dtious,
and the venture vr s u. icuccessf^-il. John Colonnn reviewed it in
The Dramatic Review in c mrnner far from corapli lentar^, describing
Gociv.dn as the "Mr n-Mil liner" - a gratuitous insinuation
of o-fcninacy« The designer's Irct success was Helena in Troas,
anc" on October 6, ir>;'6 he ''•Voc 1 . after a lithotomy. His burial
was described, approprir tely, in the column "Drees niu' tlie Drana"
of The Drcriatic Hcviev;t
Thourh all wos cindo c.s bright rs ;j oc..dblo, .--t
least in tJic lior.rts of tlie many oorrowing
fricnc 1 ;:: v/ho concrecnted round hia £:rave, the
bolls must Iiave toiled for tlio funeral of "r
Goc vdn. His remains \vcrc laid in the old churcii
near Clic'lbery, where a .117 of his artistic suLr; ;:;ostions
h. vc been carried out. The coffin, draped in
v;hitc and covered in flowers, v;cx borne to tiis
,-rr*vc by ci:: f:.-.rn-labourers. f,5ro Go civ/in. . .v/as in
bl; clc, thoucih not in vdcloxv'c woods, and carried
a larf;o bouqact of ter.-ro;:ec, v;iiilat L,.cl.y Archibald
Campbell. . .v/ore a Turple velvet clrcc-.c. am' cap to
-etch. (By [o .lor r : -- t -3 October l.°P6)