IMAGE
Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947 :Martigues. 6 February 1928 [Handpainted postcard]
- Date
- 1928
- By
- Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Selby, Dorothy M, active 1923-1947
- Reference
- A-441-083
- Description
Ink and watercolour semi-abstract sketch of boats beside a quay, with white-washed houses in the background.
Handwritten text on the verso: "Martigues is epatant [amazing] for certain effects. Very many thanks for your card and for lending a helping hand - I hope Mr Howell did not get a shock & decide not to hang my "children". I am afraid I gave you a lot of trouble - can you forgive me? Barling is thinking of Martigues for Easter - shall you come too? It will be lovely & warm here by then. Shall I book you a room? Let me know in good time. Shall not be here alas! It is still too cold for outside work - a pest of a wind - Pinder's Circus could not put up their canvas last night so performed in the theatre next door - & spent the remainder of the night at this Hotel - after midnight all sorts of offstage noises & much merriment - it quite bucked us up - with the elephants or horses of course - "close ups" of circus ladies not so enchanting as you could wish for - I have got some choice sketches of them - Yours FH"
Barling is possibly Elsie J Barling 1883-1976
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on card 139 x 89 mm.
Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-4129 - Other material of the same provenance at MS-Papers-4129 - Transferred in 2011 from Dorothy Selby papers, MS-Papers-4129..
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Ink drawings, Postcards, Ink and watercolour on card 139 x 89 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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