Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Palermo, to Sr. Thomas Lawrence

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

LAW/3/259

Title

Thomas Leverton Donaldson, Palermo, to Sr. Thomas Lawrence

Date

27 Feb 1821

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He has learnt of the death of West and the election of Lawrence; he criticises the Royal Academy for its neglect of architecture and he pleads the case of architect students, who do not have a fine collection of casts to inspire them; he puts himself forward as a candidate to spuerintend the compilation of a cast collection and states that Mr. Westmacott backs him; he gives a brief precis of his itinerary through Greece and Asia Minor, the latter with three French architects dressed in native costume; he finishes by refering to a friend who is tryig to dispose of a collection of Graeco-Roman vases.