BIB_ID
300543
Accession number
MA 1063.95
Creator
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830.
Display Date
1829 May 7.
Credit line
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1928.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Thomas Lawrence to the Irish politician and writer J. W. Croker. Letters have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 1063 for more information.
Written from Russell Square.
Written from Russell Square.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co in 1928; gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1928.
Summary
Discussing the price of pictures when he first came to town in 1787. Noting that there were between 1,100 and 1,200 paintings in the last exhibit, and that the first in 1769 exhibited 136 paintings. Promising to send an average number exhibited in recent years.
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