BIB_ID
436581
Accession number
MA 3315.70
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, between 1840 and 1845.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) : illustrations ; 22.7 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Location and date of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 1 with a man sitting on a horse looking down at 2 dogs; illustrated on page 2 with 2 horses drinking.
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 1 with a man sitting on a horse looking down at 2 dogs; illustrated on page 2 with 2 horses drinking.
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
Referring to a painting by Edwin Landseer that appeared in the previous year's Exhibition; discussing Landseer's paintings in the current Exhibition; praising his paintings of horses; saying he wishes Landseer would do more work in the style of his painting "Scene in the Olden Time at Bolton Abbey."
Catalog link
Department