BIB_ID
124554
Accession number
MA 1581.66
Creator
Marlow, Michael, 1759-1828.
Display Date
Oxford, 1801 May 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.1 x 19 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Grosvenor Square / London."
Docketed.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Marlow) 1.
Docketed.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Marlow) 1.
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Thanking him for the gift to the university of one of his own paintings ("one of the best Landscapes the present Age has produced"); telling him that the painting has arrived safely and that they are about to place it in "the best Situation for it which our Gallery will afford."
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