| Evidence: | 'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of that incarnate devil Maclise one of the wickedest incarnations of the spirit of (artistic) unnatural crime that ever lived.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 15 Feb 1875 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh county: Lothian |
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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: | Uncommitted. |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Sidney Colvin |
| Title: | [Notices on Titian and Daniel Maclise] |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | In The Academy, 23 January (Titian) and 30 January (Maclise) 1875. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18595 | |
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| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 113 | |
| Additional comments: | From Letter 361, To Sidney Colvin, [Early February 1875] [17 Heriot Row]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The date in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 113, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18595, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| On p. 113, Editors? Note 2 reads: ?During January Colvin contributed a series of notices to "The Academy" on the Winter Exhibition of Old Masters at the Royal Academy. On 23 January he warmly praised a landscape by Titian and on 30 January he condemned as repulsive and vulgar a number of works by the historical painter Daniel Maclise (1806-70).? |
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