BIB_ID
397192
Accession number
MA 13441
Creator
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874.
Display Date
[1846?] August 19.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 18.6 x 10.9 cm
Notes
"Back in England in 1846, [Boys] made a brief visit to Cheltenham in the hope of raising enough money to pay the rent on his London house". Cf. Hargraves, Matthew. Great British watercolors (New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, 2007), p. 74.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Asking for advice on an impending trip to Cheltenham, evidently undertaken to look for employment as a drawing instructor ("What are the price of drawing lessons? and how are schools taken? what are the usual terms? for really I know nothing about it.").
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