T. L[awrence], to Miss Croft

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

LAW/2/41

Title

T. L[awrence], to Miss Croft

Date

30 [Sep] 1815

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He describes his visit to France to see the Louvre with Charles Stewart; he offers his thoughts on the state of France in the light of the fall of Napoléon; a faint profile of a man is sketched on the letter, identified as Sir Thomas Lawrence; he hopes Miss Chawner will be able to make the journey; he spends his mornings seeing art and his evenings at the French Theatre, opera or Lady Castlereagh's; his friend Mr. Boucherett.

Bibliography

Published in "The Life of Sir Thomas Lawrence", D.E. Williams, 1831, vol.1, p.338. Williams provides a false date attribution of May 1814.