BIB_ID
127841
Accession number
MA 1581.67
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1794 November 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 23.5 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 1.
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 (Price) 1.
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.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Telling Beaumont how much he and his wife Caroline were amused by the "little friend" enclosed in a previous letter (the reference appears to be to an image or a toy, not a person); saying that he is just about to send off to Beaumont the second-to-last packet of his recent writings, containing "all I have said on prospects & on views down steep hills on both of which I am happy to find how well we agree"; asking for Beaumont's comments and criticism on the work; responding to a question: "I should think that a view down a steep hill, would be picturesque if it was rugged & abrupt just as it would be beautiful if it was soft, smooth, & with gentle swellings, & that it's being capable or not capable of being represented on the canvas would not at all affect the question"; saying that, in his essay, he has extended the idea of the picturesque to include music; mentioning that when Charles Fox read this assertion in his essay, he burst into a "loud laugh" and wrote "questo e un poco troppo [this is a bit much], I am afraid my uncle Toby would whistle Lilleburlero"; saying that he believes, though, that on further reading Fox was convinced; arguing that if the terms "sublime" and "beautiful" taken as general principles can be used to describe music, then "picturesque" can also be so used; adding in that in the last packet he will be sending Beaumont "I have taken great pains to distinguish between the general & the more confined sense of Beauty & I flatter myself the explanation & illustrations I have given will obviate many objections that have been made to Mr. Burke as well as to myself & particularly by our friend [Richard Payne] Knight"; discussing the health of Knight's mistress: "She is I fear in a gallopping consumption with very little hopes of her recovery, & I believe it has very much affected his spirits as it well may. I judge from her letters one of which I received very lately for he has not been here this summer & I have been but once at Downton"; saying that his wife wishes to be remembered to Lord and Lady Beaumont.
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