[HUNT
(William Holman, 1827-1910, Pre-Raphaelite Painter)]
Unsigned carte de visite photo by Elliott & Fry
showing him head and shoulders with a large beard, 4¼" x 3½", no place, no date
Item Date:
1891
Stock No:
38408
£150
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HUNT
(William Holman, 1827-1910, Pre-Raphaelite Painter)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'W. Holman Hunt' to an unnamed correspondent
apologising for his date reply to his invitation to a banquet "in commemoration of Shakespeare. I have caught a bad cold and the doctors have had me in hand and still prevent me from regarding myself as a free agent, or I should ... have hastened to say how proud I should be to accept it. As it is I fear that the uncertainty about my condition would make it wrong for me to engage a place on an occasion when so many will desire to be present, but if in the course of a few days my physician's better assurances are confirmed I will write again to learn whether there is any possibility of coming in to fill a chair that chance may leave vacant for I should be sorry to give up the hope altogether till the last arrangements are concluded by the Urban Club for the forthcoming anniversary of our grandest Englishman ....", 2 sides 8vo., Draycott Lodge, 8th April
Item Date:
1888
Stock No:
39826
£375
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IMAGE
(Rev. Selwyn, 1849-1930, Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford, 1910-1916)
Autograph Letter Signed to Dewar
saying that he can’t tell him “how touched and delighted we both are by your kindness. What a beautiful book! What a beautiful edition! what a beautiful inscription! Again I can only say we are more pleased than I can tell - and with the inscription not least of all. Thank you most heartily. Surely the volume is a rare one? The Farmer’s Boy I know and possess. But I am ashamed to say that of this book I never heard. And how delightful it is! It reached us on Thursday night - but I delayed writing till we had both read it through. And we are both most charmed with it. It is a book everyway after our own hearts. I hope both you and Mrs Dewar have kept well during this tryig winter - which with its plague of Influenza has laid so many of us low - myself amongst the number. But thanks to the lavish care bestowed on me I’m now quite recovered. Again with our united thanks and kindest remembrances...”, 2 sides 8vo., 20 Fitzroy Street, 24th February
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
42157
£65
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IMAGE
(Rev. Selwyn, 1849-1930, Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford, 1910-1916)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Kay-Shuttleworth,
saying that he will be "only too pleased if I can be of any service ..." and suggesting a convenient time for her to visit him, 1 side 8vo., 20 Fitzroy Street, 11th March
Item Date:
1916
Stock No:
18556
£35
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JOHN
(Augustus, 1878-1961, Painter)
Fine Autograph Letter signed to "Dear Jim"
saying that "it's a long time since you wrote and sent me that fine drawing. What must you think of me? I have it is true been laid up in hospital ... for a long spell after an operation. They removed a Stone from my inside which, after years was becoming a great nuisance and upsetting me a lot. The Op. was a great success, and I am now convalescing and Dode & I are just about to move to the South of Spain to Malaga where I am told sun is guaranteed. It has been a frightful year here. Please don't think I didn't appreciate your kindness in sending me the splendid cat. It is drawn with the spirit of a calligraphic Chinese Masterpiece! I hear often from Poppet, and Pol also has written. His work from what I have seen, shows real sensibility and appears to improve all the time. He is to have a show in London in the Spring. I too, hope to get busy in the south after so long a break. It may take some time to find a suitable place but we are first at a village on the sea ... Well, my dear Jim, we leave tomorrow for London ... Thank you again for your letter and the Cat! ...", 2 sides 8vo., Fryern Court, Hants headed paper, 12th December
Item Date:
1954
Stock No:
41546
£325
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