Included Text
Monday
My dear Boyce
Above is the composition
of Fanny's portrait, which
you will see has taken
after all a rather
Venetian, aspect. “Them
be'ind's merrygoes,” as
My dear Boyce
Above is the composition
of Fanny's portrait, which
you will see has taken
after all a rather
Venetian, aspect. “Them
be'ind's merrygoes,” as
Note: This is the text of the letter in
which the sketch appears.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
This image is a small sketch DGR made for George Boyce. It comes at the beginning of a letter he wrote to Boyce on 7 Sept. 1860, in which he discusses the painting he was just completing.
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