BIB_ID
454149
Accession number
MA 14621
Creator
Tomkins, Thomas, 1743-1816, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.2 x 18 cm
Notes
Addressed in address panel to: Mr. Scott / Rosoman's Street.
Recipient tentatively identified as the English engraver John Scott, a specialist in animal subjects, who resided on Rosoman Street during the later portion of his career.
Recipient tentatively identified as the English engraver John Scott, a specialist in animal subjects, who resided on Rosoman Street during the later portion of his career.
Inscriptions/Markings
With the obituary notice for Thomas Tomkins from the Gentleman's Magazine transcribed in an unidentified hand on the three pages of the folded sheet following Tomkin's letter.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Enclosing a "trifle" which "may be of some relief to the poor man you mentioned", and adding that he has no objection "to Subscribe this annually"; writing that the bearer will deliver the India paper to him, acknowledging a proof Scott sent him, and asking "to exchange it for a companion to the New-Foundland dog I have inclosed", stating "This will be doing me a favour, as I think them in the first Class of Art."
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