Record ID:
436203
Accession number:
MA 3315.50
Created:
London, England, 1843 November 19.
Credit:
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 18.2 cm
Notes:
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on all three pages with numerous people, animals, and fantastical figures, some of an Orientalist nature. Doyle uses brown watercolor for shading in a few places.
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.
Summary:
The complete text of the letter is "Look upon this picture" (p. 2) and "And upon this" (p. 3).
Provenance:
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.