BIB_ID
436143
Accession number
MA 3315.13
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1842 October 23.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; illustrations ; 22.7 x 18.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle dates the letter "Sunday Evening October 22d 1842," but Scott notes that Sunday fell the 23rd. See note 1, p. 110 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a man carrying a bundle of papers at the top of the page and a nautical scene at the bottom of the page, with an incorporated self-portrait.
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.
Doyle dates the letter "Sunday Evening October 22d 1842," but Scott notes that Sunday fell the 23rd. See note 1, p. 110 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a man carrying a bundle of papers at the top of the page and a nautical scene at the bottom of the page, with an incorporated self-portrait.
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 that Christmas is drawing near and he will be spending all his time working on the cartoons; cautioning his father against expecting the usual amount of art from him this Christmas; quoting from a letter by Sir David Wilkie to Abraham Raimbach, in which Wilkie compares the Italian, French, English, and German schools of painting and mentions Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Wilhelm von Schadow, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, and Philipp Veit in particular.
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