BIB_ID
196233
Accession number
MA 14101
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1864 December 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.5 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Dated "Tuesday Decr 13"; written on paper watermarked 1864.
December 13th fell on a Tuesday in the year 1864.
Possibly refers to Doyle's drawings for A selection from the works of Frederick Locker, published in 1865 by the firm of E. Moxon, at that time under the management of J.B. Payne, and illustrated with wood engravings after Doyle by W.T. Green.
December 13th fell on a Tuesday in the year 1864.
Possibly refers to Doyle's drawings for A selection from the works of Frederick Locker, published in 1865 by the firm of E. Moxon, at that time under the management of J.B. Payne, and illustrated with wood engravings after Doyle by W.T. Green.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning Doyle's execution of some drawings to serve as wood engraved illustrations for an unspecified publication; requesting that Payne have the engraver, Mr. Green, provide him with blocks for the drawings, "As the engraver always supplies the wood-blocks for the drawings"; stating that, as he has already returned the specimen page for the publication, he has no way to determine the size of the blocks required, and suggesting that "the best way is to have the blocks, allowing for the usual margin of course, the exact size of a page and then I can make them larger or smaller according as the subject requires."
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