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To Mr. Jervais on the sight of Mrs. Chetwinds picture : manuscript poem in the hand of Heneage Finch, included among the Fountaine Papers, undated.

BIB_ID
118349
Accession number
MA 457.15
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
Included among Swift materials, though the poem is not by Swift.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Poem in the hand of Heneage Finch (1657-1726), who became the fifth Earl of Winchilsea in 1712
Probably addressed to Charles Jervas [Jarvis], a portrait painter who was part of the literary circle of Swift, Pope, and Addison.
Provenance
Andrew Fountaine; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.