Record Number: 17253
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: 3 Jul 1874
Country:unknown
Timen/a
Place:city: London?
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:13 Nov 1850
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Aspiring writer and intermittent law student
Religion:Church of Scotland (wavering)
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Shadow of Death
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Publication Details
July 1874 issue of "Macmillan's Magazine".
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:17253
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:28
Additional Comments:
Co-editor Ernest Mehew. Letter 290, To his Mother, Friday [? 3 July 1874], written Hampstead. Dates in square brackets have been added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 28, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17253, accessed: 16 February 2025
Additional Comments:
RLS?s friend Sidney Colvin?s article ?The Shadow of Death?, on Holman Hunt?s popular picture depicting Christ as a carpenter (completed 1873, disseminated as an engraving and donated to the city of Manchester in 1883), appeared (see p. 28, Note 1) in the July 1874 issue of Macmillan?s Magazine.
