Record Number: 26848
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I read your “Grosvenor”; I’ve seen more interesting articles of yours (beg parding!); but it seemed to me very nice in tone, and I think all the fellows should be pleased, except perhaps poor Tissot. I can’t think anything “debased and odious” that has such a nice light and air about it, as anything of his I ever saw; that seems to me to be an ideal after a fashion.'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Until: Jun 1877
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
county: Lothian
(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:Writer
Religion:Uncommitted
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:"The Grosvenor Gallery"
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Arts / architecture
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsArticle in the Fortnightly Review, June 1877.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:26848
Source:Robert Louis Stevenson
Editor:Bradford A. Booth
Title:The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879
Place of Publication:New Haven and London
Date of Publication:1994
Vol:2
Page:211
Additional Comments:
Letter 472, To Sidney Colvin, [June 1877], [17 Heriot Row]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. The foregoing material in square brackets has been added by the editors.
Citation:
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879, (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 211, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=26848, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
On p. 211, Editors’ Note 2 to Letter 472 reads: “In 'The Grosvenor Gallery', in the June 1877 "Fortnightly Review", Colvin described the French painter J.J.J.[Jacques Joseph, known as James] Tissot (1836-1902) as a ‘craftsman of astonishing industry and cleverness, and a realist who, instead of adding a grace to nature, takes a grace away…the rendering of material facts, and especially of atmospheric facts is simply masterly; the types and sentiments simply debased and odious.’”
