BIB_ID
305674
Accession number
MA 382.2
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1879 July 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postage and postmarks, addressed to "Edmund Bates Esq., 1 Upper Fountaine Street, Leeds."
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to various recipients. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from 16 Cheyne Walk.
Year is from postmark.
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to various recipients. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from 16 Cheyne Walk.
Year is from postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Indicating his inability to give an "authoritative opinion as to the [Blake] portraits" and that Mr. Tatham is dead and Linnell "is probably to old & odd to be tackled"; suggesting Samuel Palmer and offering to establish contact on his behalf.
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