BIB_ID
436187
Accession number
MA 3315.36
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 July 2?.
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 ; 22.5 x 18.3 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle lists "Sunday Morning July 1843" as the date of writing, with a blank space left for the day. Based on the contents, Scott has suggested July 2nd; see full citation in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated on all three pages with depictions of the exhibition and sketches of the works on display.
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 lists "Sunday Morning July 1843" as the date of writing, with a blank space left for the day. Based on the contents, Scott has suggested July 2nd; see full citation in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated on all three pages with depictions of the exhibition and sketches of the works on display.
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
Writing at length about the Exhibition of Cartoons at Westminster Hall (part of the competition to determine which artists that would be selected to decorate the new Houses of Parliament); saying it has brought to light numerous talented English painters, including Edward Armitage, William Frost, and George Frederic Watts; praising particular cartoons on subjects from English history and literature by those artists, as well as Charles West Cope, Henry James Townsend, and Henry Courtney Selous, especially the last's "Boadicea Haranguing the Iceni"; commenting on the competition as a whole.
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