Letter from W.E. Lockhart to "Gerard", Tenerife, discussing the current heatwave, and the local argument that the restorers of the Holy Virgin statue had "palmed off an imitation article", as prayers to the newly restored statue for rain had been unsuccessful.

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Reference
- GB 70 TGA 7122/4
Dates of Creation
- 6 Apr 1897
Physical Description
- 1 piece and envelope

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Letters, photographs, printed material and press cuttings on the Scottish painter William Ewart Lockhart (1846-1900)TGA 7122

Letter from W.E. Lockhart, Hotel Cavour, Florence, to his children, talks of his travels in Italy, his plans to take a studio in Rome, and Christmas.TGA 7122/1

Letter from Archduke Louis Salvator, Venice, thanking Lockart for the Album he sent, and mentions the possibility of meeting in Mallorca next year. Enclosed, the Archduke's visiting card.TGA 7122/2

Extract from 'Jogging round Majorca' by Gordon West.TGA 7122/3

Letter from W.E. Lockhart to "Gerard", Tenerife, discussing the current heatwave, and the local argument that the restorers of the Holy Virgin statue had "palmed off an imitation article", as prayers to the newly restored statue for rain had been unsuccessful.TGA 7122/4

Presscutting: obituary notice of W.E. Lockhart's death from 'Het Vaderland'.TGA 7122/5

Presscutting from a Scottish newspaper, noting that the year marks the centenary of the birth of J.B. MacDonald, RSA.TGA 7122/6

Presscutting concerning a gift of pictures by W.E. Lockhart to the Town Council, by his daughter.TGA 7122/7

Presscutting from The Daily Telegraph concerning Frank C. Stoop's bequest of pictures to the Tate Gallery.TGA 7122/8

Photograph of W.E. Lockhart, RSA.TGA 7122/9

Photograph of John Blake MacDonald, RSA, in folder with hand-written note in ink "J.B. MacDonald, R.S.A. (Grannie's uncle)".TGA 7122/10

Colour reproduction of a monotone photograph of Lawrence Alma-Tadema.TGA 7122/11

Exhibition catalogue for the seventy-first exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy.TGA 7122/12

Christies catalogue concerning the sale of the remaining works of W.E.Lockhart R.S.A., A.R.W.S.TGA 7122/13