BIB_ID
81061
Accession number
MA 9421
Creator
Bacon, John, 1740-1799.
Display Date
1792 April 24.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Rena Bransten and Henry S. Glazier, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.2 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Written from Newman Street, an address in London where Bacon is known to have lived.
Address panel with red wax seal: "Benjamin West Esqre / Newman Street."
West had been elected President of the Royal Academy on March 17, 1792.
Part of a collection of letters by artists and architects formerly accessioned as MA 3723.
Address panel with red wax seal: "Benjamin West Esqre / Newman Street."
West had been elected President of the Royal Academy on March 17, 1792.
Part of a collection of letters by artists and architects formerly accessioned as MA 3723.
Provenance
From an album purchased at Sotheby's sale, London, 28 October 1980, lot 745.
Summary
Thanking West for an invitation; explaining that "since the complaint under which I laboured about a year ago, I have declined all proposals for dining from home, but on the present occasion I must depart from my rule for tho' my sentiments & conduct relative to your present situation in the Royal Academy have been so direct and unequivocal as to need no additional proof, I should be sorry to omit any thing that might be considered as an expression of my satisfaction in that event."
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