BIB_ID
396077
Accession number
MA 13350
Creator
Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943.
Display Date
1912 February 22.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written on stationery from the British Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning a painting evidently submitted to the British Museum as a potential acquisition which he has acertained to be either the work of a little-known Japanese artist or a Japanese copy of a Chinese original; concluding "In these circumstances we should not require the painting. Will you call for it, or shall it be sent to you?".
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