Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
29-31 July 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/653
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 sketch of himself on a boat, with the words “ My native land. Good night” : ... Its exceedingly pleasing to me to hear that you like B. Hall [Bracebridge Hall] better than Old X. I know that the great swells—some of them, any way—think “ Paradise Regained” as good as “ Paradise lost.”...Speaks of these works, the Graphic sketches, etc., and “I think of flying away to the Rivi¢éra...” sketch of himself, Armstrong, a donkey and a woman reclining at the top of a hill: describes Mentone and its invalids, several Manchester folks in this hotel, one lady has a nice niece and he might pick up a dowager or an invalid cheap, etc. describes the garden in which he is sitting, and has made a sketch of, mentions his Graphic work, etc. April 20, 1877: speaks of the scenery, his hotel, etc., and hopes to return for R.A. press-day—“ promised to help a man.” sketch of himself seated about to dip his pen in the ink : .-.1 have read your anecdote. It is now nearly 3 years since I gave up telling that story... Mentions the M. and S. Bank. 1878, with a sketch of himself walking with this friend, his R.A. picture was : oh, so dreadfully, dreadfully hung!... I have sold it to Mun- della, the tribune of the people... two sketches, one a man pointing a direction to another man, the other a sketch of himself collapsed on a couch, with words “ I am limp”: He complains of the heat. He is having the Boar Hunt repro- duced in metal. “I have to-day received a note asking me if I paint horses, & if so, prices according to size.” sketches, both relative to his sketching in Brittany : Speaks of the metal reproduction of his Boar Hunt. He 1n- tended it much greener...it is rather black, I think—like certain old bronzes, but not of so pleasant & poisonous a hue as I could wish... ...A sunny smile will make me forget serious subjects—Some-
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