Illustrator 1907 1977 (2 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Dated 7 June 1959 and written on headed. 136 words written on in green ink both sides of a single sheet. Nicely detailed and specific notes in appreciation of AR's new book, A Matter of Life and Death: 'What compelling and literally exact titles you lean on. I find titlesof all things the most difficult; but then in poictures they are almost always wholly irrelevant; and anything I write does not need.such final distillation by the ear'.…

Postcard with painting of Rialto Bridge by Canaletto. Postmarked 1970. Ruckled with damp but entirely legible. An amusing communication, beginning 'Thought I would let you know that we were not involved in the great tornado that sunk a voporetto [sic] on Lirica 4, and that the Hotel alla Fava is still very comfortable.' Refers to the Lambs' 'self-contained eyrie' and 'the weak fast coffee which tastes of mud; but clearly and obviously isn't'. Asks why 'that in some ways great and good man Ruskin should have blamed Canaletto for "his culpable lack of detail"?' Ends 'Much learning doth make thee mad.' Scan on application.…