BIB_ID
435082
Accession number
MA 3315.3
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1842 July 24.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; illustrations ; 23.1 x 19 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter. See note 1, p. 54 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father for additional information.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a scene from the ballad referred to in the letter.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father, John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter. See note 1, p. 54 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father for additional information.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a scene from the ballad referred to in the letter.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father, John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Mentioning a depiction by Horace Vernet of a scene from a ballad by Gottfried Bürger; comparing English and French art and artists; discussing the work of Paul Delaroche, Charles Lock Eastlake, Antoine-Jean Gros, the Johannot brothers, Edwin Landseer, and Charles Robert Leslie; describing an evening at the Italian Opera; mentioning numerous performers and musicians including Michael Costa, Fanny Cerrito, Henri Desplaces, Marie Guy-Stephan, Fanny Persiani, Jules Perrot, and Giovanni Rubini; praising Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor; mentioning a character from Nicholas Nickleby.
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