Letter to W. M. Rossetti, 1857-09-05

Item — Box: 2, Folder: W.6.11

Letter to W. M. Rossetti (MS23 W.6.11)

Dates

Creation: 1857-09-05

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchase: Myers 386:304 (21 letters & 3 words by Tennyson). Date of acquisition: Spring 1956 catalogue. Description of lot gave names of nos 1, 3-20, Craig, Greenwood . No. 2 is of unknown provenance, but may also have been part of the lot. Previously part of MS 23W.3 (now obsolete).

General

Author: Lance, George, 1802-1864 . Summary: 1857 Sep 5 [8th?] [??sburgh] Terrace, Regents Park; Summary: Mr Green has received my pictures, done expressly for the New York Exhibition (I had nothing unsold and did not like to borrow). Those Gambart sent are very small oils, those I sent are in water. Marked "George Lance, the late admired Still-life Painter." Annotator probably W. M. Rossetti.