Royal College of Art,
Department of Science and Art,
London, S.W.
July 28 1899
Dear Dr Wallace,
In reply to your letter —
The photographs which you sent have a strong resemblance in style of execution & general form & scale with certain similar works by a French artist named Justin executed about 1850 or 1851.
The subject is very likely the one suggested though the artwork is of a later period, but at that date (1850) these particulars would not be carefully studied as [2] now.
I know of no reproductions of their work though for what I can learn it is highly likely there are more in existence, as then works now produced in a kind of fictile irony & many copies were made.
It is supposed they were intended to resemble old earrings, & have I been offered and sold as such.
Very truly yours | Walter Crane [signature]
No very high value can be set upon such a work if its history is as I have <known?> to believe.
Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP1524.1303)]
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