BIB_ID
137775
Accession number
MA 1581.191
Creator
Sotheby, William, 1757-1833.
Display Date
Place not specified, after 1821 May 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.0
Notes
The paper is watermarked 1821.
This manuscript 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. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Sotheby) 1.
The poem is signed with the initials "W.S." A penciled notation on the verso says "Wm Sotheby."
This manuscript 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. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Sotheby) 1.
The poem is signed with the initials "W.S." A penciled notation on the verso says "Wm Sotheby."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Being a poem of three stanzas, the first two of twelve lines each and the final stanza being sixteen lines and ending "The forms that Poussin greatly drew."
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