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- Edwin Austin Abbey 1852–1911
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 305 × 267 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by a group of admirers through John Singer Sargent 1924
- Reference
- N03989
Catalogue entry
N03989 THE LETTER 1890
Inscr. ‘E. A. Abbey 1890’ b.r.
Pen and ink, 12×10 1/2 (30·5×26·5).
Presented by a group of admirers through John Singer Sargent 1924.
Coll: Mrs E. A. Abbey.
Exh: R.A., winter 1912 (312).
Possibly an illustration to Goldsmith's The Deserted Village which Abbey was illustrating in 1890 according to E. V. Lucas (1921, 1, pp.113, 203, 239).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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