William Dyce [to Revd Dr Dibdin, Exning, Newmarket]

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Reference code

JU/14/157

Title

William Dyce [to Revd Dr Dibdin, Exning, Newmarket]

Date

07 May 1837

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Dyce had been thinking of etching his design of Knox, but was not sure if Dibdin would think an artist's scratches on copper worthy of a place in the book. Dyce had, however, had a good deal of practice that way. In a postscript Dyce asks Dibdin to confirm the rarity of an edition of the Odes of Horace, published by Johan Petit in 1503, which he had picked up the other day.