BIB_ID
81089
Accession number
MA 3074
Creator
Bacon, John, 1740-1799.
Display Date
1797 November 9.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Mr. & Mrs. Claus von Bulow, 1975.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Written from Newman Street, an address in London where Bacon is known to have lived.
Address panel with black wax seal and postmarks: "The Revd / Mr Alderson / Hornby Castle / near Richmond / Yorkshire."
Docketed.
Address panel with black wax seal and postmarks: "The Revd / Mr Alderson / Hornby Castle / near Richmond / Yorkshire."
Docketed.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Paul Grinke, November 1975.
Summary
Asking Alderson's opinion of his design for a monument to the poet William Mason; commenting "the more I converse with persons the more I am convinced of the difficulty of descending to particulars in expressing the genius of Mr M, so various and, as some think, equal was his ability in different classes of poetic compositions."
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