BIB_ID
81008
Accession number
MA 9199
Creator
Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, Marquis of, 1759-1840.
Display Date
1796 February 16.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 24 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Camden gives the place of writing as "Dublin Castle." He served as lord lieutenant of Ireland from 1795 to 1798.
Address panel with seal and postmarks: "Dublin Castle Febry sixteenth 1796 / To George Romney Esqr / Cavendish Square / Camden / London."
Removed from a copy of John Romney's Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1830); volume 2, page 235.
Address panel with seal and postmarks: "Dublin Castle Febry sixteenth 1796 / To George Romney Esqr / Cavendish Square / Camden / London."
Removed from a copy of John Romney's Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1830); volume 2, page 235.
Summary
Writing that his portrait of Lord Euston (George Henry Fitzroy) has arrived safely and praising it: "I think it as fine a Picture of as good a subject for one, as I ever saw & altho' your fame is already high in this Country I think it will encrease it"; enclosing a draft for the amount he owes Romney; adding in a postscript that payment for the frame will be made through his agent in London and asking Romney to send him a receipt for the draft he is enclosing.
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