[John Gibson, to an unnamed correspondent]

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

Showing item 389 of 391 in this group

Reference code

GI/1/386

Title

[John Gibson, to an unnamed correspondent]

Date

c. 1860

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

In response to a letter about Gibson's statue of 'Venus'. Gibson is impressed by the writer's remarks. Gibson affirms his devotion to Greek ideals of artistic perfection, and asks what is sculpture with beauty?, giving the answer "dead stone", and what without tinting?, giving the answer "cold stone".