BIB_ID
436590
Accession number
MA 3315.79
Creator
Doyle, Charles Altamont, 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 (3 pages, with address) : illustrations ; 22.5 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Location and date of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 1 with Vam Amburgh in a cage pointing towards the lioness who cowers with fear while a leopard, a tiger, and a lion look on; illustrated on page 2 with a leopard head; illustrated on page 3 with a man looking amused and a woman looking unhappy near him.
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 Vam Amburgh in a cage pointing towards the lioness who cowers with fear while a leopard, a tiger, and a lion look on; illustrated on page 2 with a leopard head; illustrated on page 3 with a man looking amused and a woman looking unhappy near him.
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 about an exhibition he attended; mentioning Ellis, Turner, and Ruskin; saying that he dislikes [Isaac] Van Amburgh because he looks like he is bullying the animals he works with; describing a painting by [Augustus Leopold] Egg; adding that he heard that Victor de Fleury had a landscape in the exhibition, but he did not see it.
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