BIB_ID
300129
Accession number
MA 769.31
Creator
Landor, Walter Savage, 1775-1864.
Display Date
[1862 Mar.?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.5 cm
Notes
Approximate date from R.H. Super's article about Landor's letters to Linton.
Bound between two pages of the preceding letter (MA 769.30).
Lacking the beginning of the letter and the top of p. 2.
Part of a collection of letters from Walter Savage Landor to Eliza Lynn Linton. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 769 for details.
Signed "Father."
Bound between two pages of the preceding letter (MA 769.30).
Lacking the beginning of the letter and the top of p. 2.
Part of a collection of letters from Walter Savage Landor to Eliza Lynn Linton. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 769 for details.
Signed "Father."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Informing her that he intends "to send two fine pictures, a Salvator and a Bronzino, for sale in London"; adding that "many good judges have thought that the one which is attributed to Bronzino is really by Michelangelo"; noting that there is "scarcely a finer picture in existence"; discussing the "foggy and frosty" weather in Italy.
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