Three Original Handwritten and Signed Letters/Envelope from Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim to Artist Anthony Rossiter’s wife Anneka

Language: English

Published by UK, 1963

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  • Softcover
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Three Original Handwritten and Signed Letters/Envelope from Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim to Artist Anthony Rossiter’s wife Anneka. Long letters discussing them meeting up at different places and using their house. Written 1963. From a large collection of the artists letters. Anthony Rossiter RWA MSIAD was a British landscape painter who was educated at Eton and studied painting at Chelsea Art School from 1947-51. He was a romantic visionary, a “poet” whose heaven was the Mendip Hills in Somerset. Gnarled hedgerows, tumbling stone walls, broken gates, reflections in water and ploughed fields were all his subject matter. His works also included portraits, most notably that of W.H. Auden. Anthony Rossiter began his correspondence with Huxley and Osmond while writing his autobiography, The Pendulum (Gollancz, 1966). From the ecstasy of the creative high to the agonising despair of depression, The Pendulum was the creative artist’s riposte to the cult success of Doors of Perception (Chatto & Windus, 1954). Where Huxley induced heightened perception by carefully controlled experiments with mescaline, Rossiter’s swings came naturally and without warning. Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim 1935 – 2021, known as Alexander Dunluce, was a landowner, hereditary peer, artist, and art restorer. He lived mostly at his ancestral home, Glenarm Castle, County Antrim, Ireland. As his titles were in the peerage of Ireland, he did not sit in the House of Lords. All in good condition with light creasing. Ref18838.

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Title
Three Original Handwritten and Signed Letters/Envelope from Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim to Artist Anthony Rossiter’s wife Anneka
Author
Alexander Randal Mark McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim SIGNED
Publisher
UK
Publication year
1963
Condition
Good
Signed
Signed by Author(s)
Binding
Paper
Language
English
Edition
First Edition
Dimensions
48mo - over 3 - 4" tall

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