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Letter from Augustus Pugin to Paul Colnaghi?, 1819 May 25 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
433840
Accession number
MA 23574
Creator
Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832.
Display Date
London, England, 1819 May 25.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Seth Dennis, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Written from 34 Store Street, Bedford Square.
Address panel: "To / Colnaghi Esqre."
Docketed.
Summary
Enclosing prints that he found while moving (no longer with the letter); adding that he believes Colnaghi lent the prints to Pugin's brother-in-law Louis Lafitte and apologizing for not having returned them earlier; writing that a friend of his wants to dispose of "Le Sacre of Buonaparte" (possibly referring to "Le Sacre de Napoléon" by Jacques-Louis David) and asking Colnaghi what he thinks it would be worth; mentioning "seven large folio volumes of the work of Egipt (a magnificent work)."