BIB_ID
436162
Accession number
MA 3315.26
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 April 2.
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 x 18.8 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on pp. 1-2 with fantastical figures; illustrated on p. 3 with a drawing of the pipe-smoking dog.
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 pp. 1-2 with fantastical figures; illustrated on p. 3 with a drawing of the pipe-smoking dog.
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
Praising the German Repository of Art in Regent Street; saying that he saw a mezzotint of Horace Vernet's painting "Raphael in the Vatican" there recently; describing and commenting on the painting in detail; telling an anecdote about a dog smoking a pipe.
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