William Orpen
, Irish, 1878-1931
Title
Cropped letter from William Orpen to Mrs St George with a sketch of the artist suffering from a cold on the reverseMediumInk on paper
Dimensions
17.2 x 20.4 cm
Signedon verso, upper right: William Orpen
Credit LinePresented, Mrs Vivien Graves, 1974
Object numberNGI.7830.192
Inscriptioncentre: taken as a "snub" However I feel/sure your "intentions etc." I have a beast/of a cold and can't eat speak/think breathe or smell - and feel/real rotten. I feel ashamed to write/this as I seem allways to be complaining/about myself- but its grand to/have the murder stories to cheer me/up- I hear my brother Richard is/not at all well and I am going/to try and get him to come back/home with me. I think its mental/depression of Dublin he's sufferingon verso, lower right: this is how I spent the rest of the day
ProvenancePresented by Mrs Vivien Graves to the National Gallery of Ireland in 1974.