Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1823 August 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking Sir George for his congratulations on his son's marriage and describing his daughter-in-law (Jane Mary Ann Price) as "a very amiable & excellent person in all respects, & notorious for one of the sweetest tempers that ever woman was blessed with"; telling an anecdote about a coincidence connected with the wedding; saying that he hopes to come to London next spring to "see, hear, & enjoy all that is to be seen, heard, & enjoyed"; referring to a dispute over a work by Michelangelo (possibly the Taddei Tondo) between Anne Seymour Damer and Henry Fuseli: "as I am so well acquainted with the persons, manners, voices, & the whole allure of them both, your excellent description has completely brought them before me: I have Mrs. Damer's whine now in my ears, & Fuseli's growl; & the contrast is still stronger between his genuine feeling, & a degree of vanity & presumption almost beyond belief. What a misfortune it would have been if she had been the purchaser, & of course, the finisher of a work, which perhaps the great artist himself purposely left in its present state; from feeling, which Fuseli seems to have felt, that there was an indescribable something, which a further process, even by the hand & mind which had carried it so far, must have injured. She would have had no scruples..."; referring to a painting of Venus that Apelles had left unfinished at his death, which was so venerated that no other artist of the era presumed to add to it: "This picture, with every thing that was most exquisite in art, was carried from Greece to Rome, where it may be said to have died a natural death: the whole gradually faded away, & the beautiful image at last vanished but unpolluted, from the canvas"; listing sculptures by Canova that he would like to see and lamenting the sculpter's early death; saying that his son and daughter-in-law are traveling on the Continent; adding that he got a letter from Bob from Antwerp, where he is "revelling in Rubens & Vandycks"; writing that he wishes he could see Paris again, after fifty years' absence "& such changes with these last twenty as few cities & countries ever experienced in so short a time"; sending "kindest wishes" to Lady Beaumont.