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Peal accession no. 10583g. Includes a transcript and a summary of the letter.
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 560 Zattere
Venice - May 8,1890

My dear Colvin

I am in Venice;&r some weeks rubbing out
‘the memoryof snow & ice.

A friend of mine here, Paul Tilton, son of

a well known American artist, has a picture wh.
his father bought & considered to be a genuine
Titian o

It is certainly a most remarkable production-

a Magdalene, not unlike the Titan in the Pitti, but
far finer in conception, tone, composition

& beauty.

He wants to send it to London, & has written

twice to Agnew (the second time enclosing a

letter from myself). But Agnew has not condescended
to answer.

Tilton is now on the lookout for some other London
agent. But he does not know how to set about finding
one.

I am anxious that his picture should be well seen
in London, not only for Tiiion's sake, but

also for art's sake. It ought~£ think to....

a national gallery.

I have written to Burton much to the same effect
as I have done to you.

But I am so far interested in the matter that I
even venture to bother you too — feeling thst your
official relation to agents & brokers in art things
makes you likely to tell me of precisely the right
man - & knowing how unfailing your kindness to your
friends is.

 

 A second edn. of a little book of mine 0n

Dante has just come out. It wasthe first book

I published; 8: I well remember the encouragement
which some hearty words of welcome you wrote about
it in the Fortnightly gave me.

I hOpe that your health is steadily improving.
After shaking off the influenza I have been well.

Believe me most sincerely yrs

John Addington Symonds

 

 SXMONDS, John Addington (who-1893)
Author and critic. Venice.

A.L.S. to Sidney Colvin (18h5-1927)
8 May 1890. hp. (double sheet, octavo)

Heasks Colvin‘s advice about an agent to
whom a friend~can send a painting by Titian.
Mentions the second edition (just publiShed)
of his Introduction to Dante, which Calvin
noticed in The Fortnightly in 1872.