BIB_ID
211764
Accession number
MA 3681
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
London, England, 1825 January 24.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1973.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and fragment of a seal to "John Flaxman, Esq're R.A. / &c &c / Buckingham Street / Fitzroy Square / or Miss Flaxman."
John Flaxman was a sculptor.
John Flaxman was a sculptor.
Summary
Proposing an essay on statuary and sculpture as a fine art; saying "I am preparing an essay on the connection of Statuary and Sculpture with Religion, the Origin of Statuary as a Fine Art, that is, as a form or species of Poesy - (which I distinguish from Poetry, as a Genus from one of the Species);" describing in detail his thesis; adding "I consider you as the First - not only of our contemporaries; but of all modern Sculptors. You must not wonder, therefore, if before I go on with my Essay, I should wish both to kindle and embody my Thoughts by the contemplation of such works as you may happen to have in your Laboratory : and at the same time to obtain from you or your dear Sister and Daughter a list of your chief works, that are accessible in or near London - and you would greatly oblige me by mentioning any two or three to which you would wish to have my attention especially directed;" adding that he will be coming to London and would like to visit his laboratory and see "the Michael there" [Michael and Satan].
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