Accession number
PML 146379, leaf 022
Creator
Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Item mounted on leaf 22 of v. 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of D.E. William's The life and correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831).
Addressed on verso to "Dr. Taylor / apartments of the Society for Arts Manufactures & Commerce / Adelphi".
Recipient may possibly be identified as Dr. Charles Taylor, secretary of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce from ca. 1800 to 1816.
Addressed on verso to "Dr. Taylor / apartments of the Society for Arts Manufactures & Commerce / Adelphi".
Recipient may possibly be identified as Dr. Charles Taylor, secretary of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce from ca. 1800 to 1816.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Letter of introduction requesting that the bearer, M. Vidonar(?), be allowed access to the Society's collection of machines.
Classification
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