Biographical notes on Thomas Girtin

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

Showing item 85 of 222 in this group

Reference code

AND/11/130

Title

Biographical notes on Thomas Girtin

Date

[c.1830]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

An account, not in the hand of Anderdon, of the early career of Girtin and comments on his personality and habits. The piece ends with a discussion of his mode of burial in Covent Garden. A pencil annotation by Anderdon states that this piece was written by A. Pope.