T[homas] L[awrence], Hotel de Paris, to Mrs. Wolff, Fairfield, Ross, Hertfordshire

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

LAW/4/354

Title

T[homas] L[awrence], Hotel de Paris, to Mrs. Wolff, Fairfield, Ross, Hertfordshire

Date

22 Aug 1825

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He describes his arrival in Paris, along with her son Herman, he has met many friends, including Lord Granville; the Duke of Wellington is in Paris; he and Herman went to the Louvre where he was impressed by French works, still thinking them somewhat deficient; Newton, an American artist, says that Wilkie is also in Paris and ill with partial palsy of the brain; they have also been to Tivoli.

Bibliography

Published in Letter-Bag, Layard, 1906, p.194.