BIB_ID
103654
Accession number
MA 23286
Creator
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1822 April 16.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.5 x 32.9 cm
Notes
Year of writing from published letter cited below.
The published letter cited below identifies the manuscript Hazlitt enclosed as "An article on Hugh Williams's 'Views in Greece." London Magazine (May 1822)" and identifies "W." as "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1852) (Janus Weathercock), who sometimes reviewed art exhibitions in the London Magazine."
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Mess'rs Taylor & Hessey / Fleet-Street / London / By the Edinburgh / Mail, April 16."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of George Williams Fulcher, The Life of Thomas Gainsborough (London: [Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans], 1856.); PML 196268-196272.
The published letter cited below identifies the manuscript Hazlitt enclosed as "An article on Hugh Williams's 'Views in Greece." London Magazine (May 1822)" and identifies "W." as "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794-1852) (Janus Weathercock), who sometimes reviewed art exhibitions in the London Magazine."
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Mess'rs Taylor & Hessey / Fleet-Street / London / By the Edinburgh / Mail, April 16."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of George Williams Fulcher, The Life of Thomas Gainsborough (London: [Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans], 1856.); PML 196268-196272.
Summary
Thanking them for their "kind letter with the contents;" adding "I send the enclosed, but fear it is hardly worth the while. Yet it may oblige a meritorious artist here to keep my word unbroken / W.H;" adding, in a postscript, "I expect to be in town soon & will do the Leonardo, unless W. likes."
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