BIB_ID
340550
Accession number
MA 149.39
Creator
D'Oyly, Christopher, 1717-1795.
Display Date
1770 July 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.0 cm.
Notes
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Probable reference to the Great Fire of July 27, 1770 in the Portsmouth Dockyard in which arson was suspected.
Part of a large collection of correspondence of Sir Philip Francis; see collection-level record for more information.
Probable reference to the Great Fire of July 27, 1770 in the Portsmouth Dockyard in which arson was suspected.
Provenance
By descent to his eldest granddaughter Miss Francis, and in her possession in 1871; sale (London, Sotheby's, 27 November 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1901.
Summary
Relating the details of the "destruction at Portsmouth."
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