BIB_ID
413957
Accession number
MA 1581.78
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Sunninghill, England, 1798 January 15.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.7 cm
Notes
The top left corner of the sheet is torn away, with some loss of text.
Written from Sunninghill, a village in Berkshire. Price consistently writes the place name as "Sunning Hill." He may have been visiting his friend Richard FitzPatrick, who lived at Beech Grove, Sunninghill.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 12.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
Written from Sunninghill, a village in Berkshire. Price consistently writes the place name as "Sunning Hill." He may have been visiting his friend Richard FitzPatrick, who lived at Beech Grove, Sunninghill.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 12.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Saying that he is using a painting by Sébastien Bourdon in Beaumont's possession to make a point about the introduction of "picturesque circumstances where the subject, & the general style of the picture is grand & solemn" in his essay on the picturesque; saying that he has described the picture from memory, but he would appreciate Beaumont's reading his description and checking it against the original; enclosing the description (the painting in question, based on the description, is most probably Bourdon's "The Return of the Ark"); mentioning that they are in the midst of packing and will be setting off for Foxley on the following day.
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