BIB_ID
126916
Accession number
MA 666.8
Creator
Buchan, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, 1742-1829.
Display Date
1802 Sept. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (4 p, with seal) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso; identity of recipient from the docket.
Part of a collection of twelve letters from the Earl of Buchan to Lady Anne Hamilton. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter refers to the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder who partnered with Johann Anton Andre, a German music publisher, to use the new printing method for the first time in 1800.
With a note under the seal saying it is the "Impression from the ring which Mary Queen of Scots used to seal with before the Treaty of Edinburgh and which she then gave to my ancestor the Regent Mar."
Part of a collection of twelve letters from the Earl of Buchan to Lady Anne Hamilton. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The letter refers to the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder who partnered with Johann Anton Andre, a German music publisher, to use the new printing method for the first time in 1800.
With a note under the seal saying it is the "Impression from the ring which Mary Queen of Scots used to seal with before the Treaty of Edinburgh and which she then gave to my ancestor the Regent Mar."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Enclosing "a specimen of a new device for the multiplication of original drawings sent me lately by Mr. Richard Cooper of Charles Street, St. James's Square;" quoting from Mr. Cooper, "There is a curious Invention lately come in vogue a Specimen of which I send y'r Lop--It is no less than drawing with pen and Ink upon a piece of absorbent calcareous stone having a perfectly smooth surface from which they afterward take off impressions as many as they chuse [sic]--I am doing some Landscapes in that way but they are not yet printed or I should have sent one of them instead of this--It is a particular kind of Ink & very black--I know nothing of the process -- The Inventor is a Mr. André a German --It is an excellent thing for multiplying the original sketches of Artists &c &c;" adding his own thoughts on the process and its possibilities; discussing a painting by Antonio Tempesta; expressing his affection for her.
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