BIB_ID
286814
Accession number
MA 861.22
Creator
Boissy d'Anglas, François Antoine, Comte de, 1756-1826.
Display Date
1820 Oct. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 50 autograph letters signed and 2 prints. Items in the collection are described in 52 individual records (MA 861.1-52).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
Summary
Telling her that he prefers the countryside to Paris; discussing at length the making of the portrait busts of Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier by James Pradier; mentioning a publication of his writing on Rabaut St-Etienne.
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