| Evidence: | 'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 3 Jul 1874 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London? | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Aspiring writer and intermittent law student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland (wavering) |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Sidney Colvin |
| Title: | The Shadow of Death |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | |
| Publication details: | July 1874 issue of "Macmillan's Magazine". |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17253 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 28 | |
| Additional comments: | Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Letter 290, To his Mother, Friday [? 3 July 1874], written Hampstead. Dates in square brackets have been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 28, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17253, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| RLS?s friend Sidney Colvin?s article ?The Shadow of Death?, on Holman Hunt?s popular picture depicting Christ as a carpenter (completed 1873, disseminated as an engraving and donated to the city of Manchester in 1883), appeared (see p. 28, Note 1) in the July 1874 issue of Macmillan?s Magazine. |
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