BIB_ID
436155
Accession number
MA 3315.19
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 February 12.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; illustrations ; 23.9 x 19 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated with small sketches on pages one and two, and a drawing of part of Haydon's painting at the end of 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 with small sketches on pages one and two, and a drawing of part of Haydon's painting at the end of 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 could write about either Robert Browning's play "A Blot in the 'Scutcheon" or the exhibition at the British Institution; comparing himself to "[David] Garrick between tragedy and comedy, as represented by Sir Joshua Reynolds"; choosing the latter and criticizing the painting of "Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Gulf" by Benjamin Robert Haydon that appears in the exhibition.
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