BIB_ID
436182
Accession number
MA 3315.32
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 May 14.
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 x 18.8 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of Herbert's "Christ and the Woman of Samaria"; illustrated on p. 3 with a drawing of fairies dancing in a wood by moonlight. Doyle uses watercolors lightly on the third page.
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 a sketch of Herbert's "Christ and the Woman of Samaria"; illustrated on p. 3 with a drawing of fairies dancing in a wood by moonlight. Doyle uses watercolors lightly on the third page.
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
Giving his opinion of numerous paintings in the Royal Academy Exhibition, including works by Thomas Creswick, William Etty, John Rogers Herbert, Frederick Richard Lee, Frank Stone, and William Frederick Witherington; writing at length and critically about J.M.W. Turner, as well as Ruskin's support of him; adding that he himself does not have a painting in the Exhibition, but his father can imagine that "I have one in a very good place and that this is the sketch for it" [followed by a large drawing].
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