BIB_ID
414668
Accession number
MA 1581.293
Display Date
Place not identified, not before 1827.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 31.5 x 19.9 cm
Notes
The article is signed with the initials "D.K." but it is not known to whom this refers. The article is undated; however, based on its contents, it could not have been written before the death of Sir George Beaumont in 1827.
Title taken from the item.
Various edits and cuts have been made to the article in an unknown hand.
Docketed: "This to come / under the head / of / Fine Arts / With the title / Gibson's Psyche."
This manuscript 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.
Title taken from the item.
Various edits and cuts have been made to the article in an unknown hand.
Docketed: "This to come / under the head / of / Fine Arts / With the title / Gibson's Psyche."
This manuscript 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
Consisting of an article addressed to the editor of the journal The Analyst describing Sir George Beaumont's patronage of the sculptor John Gibson; outlining how Beaumont came to commission a sculpture of "Psyche borne by Zephyrs" from Gibson; discussing Beaumont's liberal payment and support of Gibson in the course of the project; saying that Beaumont brought the Duke of Devonshire to Gibson's studio to see the sculpture in process, which led the Duke to commission a "Colossal Statue of Mars now standing in the Hall at Chatsworth"; praising various qualities of the final "Psyche borne by Zephyrs"; saying that the statue is now located at Coleorton Hall "and is by the Will of the late Sir George Beaumont left as an Heir-loom, and will remain there a splendid monument of that taste and liberal feeling which the forgoing incident has slightly illustrated."
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