BIB_ID
414335
Accession number
MA 1581.133
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1806 April 27.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.5 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Grosvenor Square / London."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 67.
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.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Grosvenor Square / London."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 67.
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
Thanking Sir George for an account of two young painters (David Wilkie and another unnamed person) and saying that he would like to meet them; saying that he would not normally propose that Sir George and Lady Margaret act as matchmakers, but "if the two young prodigies, being of different sexes, could be brought together, & should take a fancy to each other, & in short become husband and wife what a breed might we expect! what a hot-bed of little painters and paintresses who would draw long before they could speak! I should then hope to live long enough to see at some future exhibition a drawing by Master & Miss Wilkie of him or herself in the cradle"; prefacing a translation of two stanzas from Tasso with a discussion of the concepts of energy, action, terror and sublimity; referring to the description of Dover Cliff in King Lear; encouraging the Beaumont to read the Italian original of the Tasso stanzas, which are from the beginning of the thirteenth canto of Gerusalemme liberata; including his translation; describing the stanzas as embodying Burke's principles of the sublime; mentioning that a branch had cut his eye recently; asking Lady Beaumont has forgiven him his criticisms and adding "if she has not, I have given her a fine opportunity of taking her revenge. As I wish however for instruction I beg she will not let her anger prevail over her judgment."
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