Reference code
GI/1/379
Title
[John Gibson, to an unnamed correspondent]
Date
[1859]
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece
Content Description
Copy letter asking his correspondent to submit his thanks to
King Louis of Bavaria for the honour of a statue. Gibson mentions the kindness he had received from the king in the course of his visits to Rome, and calls him the "greatest patron of art since ancient times".