| Description | Letter dated 28 October 1874 to Macdonald from J.C. Hook, R.A., Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, [Surrey], with thanks for granite pedestal, 'Pettie & Orchardson are both very clever men but Pettie is deeper chested and takes a longer breath in his art … Orchardson … has been rather lazy lately', exhibition of Calcott's and Etty's work - 'a stupid twaddling Dean something has been begging the R[oyal] Acad[emy] not to exhibit Etty's "immoral deeds" there is a parallel for your Ld. Haddo and his admirer.', comments on his own techniques, 'I once used mummy, ground bones from Egypt …but I found it only a kind of bitumen with an unsavory smell & have not continued it'. |