Joseph Bonomi, Sir John Soane's Museum, 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to [John] Gibson

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Archive context

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Reference code

GI/1/24

Title

Joseph Bonomi, Sir John Soane's Museum, 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to [John] Gibson

Date

12 Nov 1862

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Bonomi introduces Captain Constable, the son of John Constable RA. The captain, an artist like his father, had been ocupied for some years in a survey of the Persian Gulf for the Admiralty, and could inform Gibson about the men he had encountered in that region: "the finest race of men in the world walking about like Greek statues of Phidian excellence".