BIB_ID
436573
Accession number
MA 3315.62
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 September.
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 18.4 cm
Notes
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Dated "Sunday September -- 1843."
Illustrated on page 3 with a sketch of the battle scene described 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.
High reserve.
Dated "Sunday September -- 1843."
Illustrated on page 3 with a sketch of the battle scene described 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.
High reserve.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Discussing an account of fresco painting he read recently and quoting from a letter by Andrew Wilson describing the process in detail; saying that he would like to do a large drawing of a battle involving Telemachus and a young Egyptian king.
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