BIB_ID
352461
Accession number
MA 663.6
Creator
Harvie, J. S.
Display Date
1818 May 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso and with a note by the Earl of Buchan.
Part of a collection of eight letters from J.S. Harvie to David Steuart Erskine, eleventh Earl of Buchan. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a pencil drawing of a sketch which is likely that of the cabinet he is proposing for the collection.
Written from Windsor Castle.
Part of a collection of eight letters from J.S. Harvie to David Steuart Erskine, eleventh Earl of Buchan. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With a pencil drawing of a sketch which is likely that of the cabinet he is proposing for the collection.
Written from Windsor Castle.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Saying he has just seen Lord Breadalbane who asked him to write and ask his "opinion with regard to the best mode of putting up the collection so as to effectually secure & preserve the pictures;" discussing his recommendation for a bookcase or cabinet as an architectural solution to how the collection should be housed; asking if he could recommend to Lord Breadalbane that he add the Brunswick family portraits to his collection.
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