BIB_ID
414752
Accession number
MA 1581.221
Creator
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Display Date
Florence, Italy, 1825 October 31.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 24.5 x 18.2 cm
Notes
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. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This letter formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wilkie) 28.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch / London."
Written from "Lungo L'Arno."
This letter formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wilkie) 28.
Address panel with postmarks and seal to "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch / London."
Written from "Lungo L'Arno."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Relatings news of his health which he reports is not worse though not yet cured; saying that though he has not been "... able to record either upon paper or on canvas what one sees, the impression is still the same, and in studying works of art the memory must still trust to itself more than to sketches to carry away what is essentially useful in works of high excellence. In this way my studies must necessarily be of a general and vague description but they still bear the character of a sort of study and during the long time I have recently been unoccupied, it is only since coming into Italy that I have felt my time has not been lost;" describing his itinerary since leaving Paris and the art he has seen along the way in Milan, Genoa and Pisa; describing and commenting on the works of art he has seen in Florence and adding that he will continue on to Rome in a fortnight; saying he has been joined in Florence by Mr. Phillips and Mr. Hilton who both send their regards.
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