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Letters to Henry Farnum from John Gibson and Benjamin Spence
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Letters to Henry Farnum from John Gibson and Benjamin Spence

Medium

Pen and brown ink on blue paper

Dimensions

Sheet (folded in half): 8 15/16 × 7 1/16 in. (22.7 × 18 cm) Sheet: 8 15/16 × 14 3/8 in. (22.7 × 36.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977

Classification

Manuscripts

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About John Gibson

1790–1866United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandWales

Outstanding Neoclassical sculptor who experimented with the ancient practice of coloring statues, e.g. his 'Tinted Venus' (1851). Flaxman encourgaged him to go to Rome, where he spent most of his life. He left his fortune to the National Gallery, London. British sculptor, active Rome. Comment on works: sculptor