BIB_ID
102262
Accession number
MA 1263.43
Creator
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
Display Date
"Sunday evening" [1772?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Pulteney Esq."
Docketed.
The probable date of the letter is based on the date of Gainsborough's portrait of William Pulteney, now held by the Yale Center for British Art (accession number B1981.25.734 ).
Volume 6 (MA 1263) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family, and distinguished contemporaries (MA 487, MA 297, and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for MA 1263 for more information.
With seal.
Docketed.
The probable date of the letter is based on the date of Gainsborough's portrait of William Pulteney, now held by the Yale Center for British Art (accession number B1981.25.734 ).
Volume 6 (MA 1263) of a 33-volume collection of the correspondence of Sir James Pulteney, his family, and distinguished contemporaries (MA 487, MA 297, and MA 1260-1290). The arrangement of the collection is alphabetical by the author of the letter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection level record for MA 1263 for more information.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased from the Ford Collection of manuscripts.
Summary
Asking for one more sitting before sending his portrait to the Royal Exhibition.
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