BIB_ID
446623
Accession number
MA 14544
Creator
Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1858
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm + envelope fragment
Notes
Year of writing from watermark.
Dated "Weds Ev.", and written on stationery watermarked "1858" from: 20, Canterbury Pl. / Lambeth.
Forms part of a collection of letters to and about the British artist Myles Birket Foster.
Dated "Weds Ev.", and written on stationery watermarked "1858" from: 20, Canterbury Pl. / Lambeth.
Forms part of a collection of letters to and about the British artist Myles Birket Foster.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning the recipient's failure to be elected to an (unspecified) artists' society; remarking on the arbitrariness of the election process, praising the "uncommon merit" of his drawings, sending him a portion of a note by Gilbert which shows "how highly he thought of your drawings", and expressing his puzzlement, as "I felt sure of yr election."
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