BIB_ID
436163
Accession number
MA 3315.27
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 April 9?.
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) ; color illustrations ; 23 x 18.7 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle does not date the letter. Date of writing established by Scott in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father; see note 1, p. 184.
Illustrated on p. 1 with an elaborate border imitating a bird cage; illustrated on pp. 2-3 with scenes from the concert. The illustrations on the first page are in watercolors.
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 does not date the letter. Date of writing established by Scott in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father; see note 1, p. 184.
Illustrated on p. 1 with an elaborate border imitating a bird cage; illustrated on pp. 2-3 with scenes from the concert. The illustrations on the first page are in watercolors.
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 is very interested in painting something large in oil, though he knows it is more difficult than painting in watercolor; describing a concert that he and his brother James attended, one of a series of three "Seances Musicales" organized by Henry Blagrove; adding that one of the singers performed an aria from "Alexander's Feast" by Handel.
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