BIB_ID
436138
Accession number
MA 3315.11
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1842 September 29.
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 ; 22.5 x 18.9 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on p. 1 with three figures; illustrated on p. 3 with a pile of prints or cards of the paintings discussed 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.
Illustrated on p. 1 with three figures; illustrated on p. 3 with a pile of prints or cards of the paintings discussed 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
Saying that he has just learned that the painter Charles Robert Leslie is an American; mentioning Edwin Landseer and Daniel Maclise; adding that, to make matters worse, Gilbert Stuart Newton was an American as well; praising Leslie and Newton's work; referring to and describing specific paintings by them, including scenes from Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Molière.
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