BIB_ID
436196
Accession number
MA 3315.43
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 August 27.
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 18.5 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 large border depicting Kensington Gardens; illustrated on p. 2 with a band of celebrating figures and a self-portrait; illustrated on p. 3 with a sketch of one of the paintings referred to in 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 on p. 1 with a large border depicting Kensington Gardens; illustrated on p. 2 with a band of celebrating figures and a self-portrait; illustrated on p. 3 with a sketch of one of the paintings referred to in 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
Referring to his morning habit of drinking two tumblers of spring water from St. Agnes's Well in Kensington Gardens; reflecting on the Exhibition of Cartoons at Westminster Hall, which has just closed; mentioning the painters Edward Armitage, Charles West Cope, and George Frederick Watts; referring to the mental breakdown of the painter Richard Dadd; commenting also on the exhibition of prize-winning paintings mounted by the Art-Union of London and praising the work of Thomas Sidney Cooper, Augustus Leopold Egg, Alexander Johnston, Charles Landseer, Frederick Richard Lee, Frederick Richard Pickersgill, and Henry Courtney Selous; referring to the German painter and draughtsman Friedrich Moritz Retzsch.
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