BIB_ID
436569
Accession number
MA 3315.58
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 May 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) : illustration ; 22.8 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 3 with a sketch of the painting discussed in the letter, labeled "wretched failure."
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.
High reserve.
Illustrated on page 3 with a sketch of the painting discussed in the letter, labeled "wretched failure."
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.
High reserve.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Writing in detail about the praiseworthy qualities and the faults, as he sees them, of Charles Robert Leslie's painting "Queen Victoria Receiving the Sacrament at her Coronation."
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