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Charles Altamont Doyle, Meditation, Self Portrait


Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Date: 1885-93
Technique: Watercolour, 17.8 x 26.5 cm

This watercolour comes from one of the sketchbooks used by the artist during his stay in the Royal Montrose Lunatic Asylum in Scotland. His son, the writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, organised an exhibition of the artist's work in London in 1924.

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