BIB_ID
128775
Accession number
MA 9435
Creator
Barry, James, 1741-1806.
Display Date
1786 January 30.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Rena Bransten and Henry S. Glazier, Jr., 1980.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters by artists and architects formerly accessioned as MA 3723.
Address panel to "F.M. Newton Esq're / Secretary to the Royal Academy / Somerset Place."
According to an introductory note in the published letter cited below James Barry was "...elected Professor of Painting on 4 March 1782; his duties included formal lectures which he gave during the winter."
Address panel to "F.M. Newton Esq're / Secretary to the Royal Academy / Somerset Place."
According to an introductory note in the published letter cited below James Barry was "...elected Professor of Painting on 4 March 1782; his duties included formal lectures which he gave during the winter."
Provenance
From an album purchased at Sotheby's, London, 28 October 1980, lot. 745.
Summary
Concerning the lecture he will deliver on February 6th; asking if "...before the necessary advertizements are forwarded to the newspapers to overlook them yourself & take care that your Amanuensis (whoever he may be) does not commit the same mistake whether well or ill meant, that has been given in to the publisher of the Court Kalendar for the year 1786 where Mr. Farrington & Mr. Wyatt are set down as the professors of Painting & Architecture to the Royal Academy & where an J. Bery in put in the list of the Visitors."
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