"Gossip for Artists", being a record of conversations with James Northcote, R.A. during a period of 21 years, by the late James Ward

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

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Reference code

WA/7

Title

"Gossip for Artists", being a record of conversations with James Northcote, R.A. during a period of 21 years, by the late James Ward

Date

1810-1823

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 volume, 175pp.

Previous reference codes

643.G

Content Description

Ward's accounts of his conversations with James Northcote, transcribed , with a note that the originals are missing. The volume reads as a interpretive account of Ward's encounters with Northcote, derived from the original source material of his diaries and journals, but with a narrative flow imposed after the fact. The volume also bears editorial interventions by Ernest Fletcher, who published a version of these conversations in 1901.