Autographs
Reference code
AUT
Title
Autographs
Date
after 1853
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and format
Paper. Tied in five groups.
Quarto.
Quarto.
Scope and content
Quarto sheets of descriptions of a collection of autograph letters, arranged in five groups (naval, politicians, archbishops and bishops, artists, men of letters).
Included are letters of:-
Horace Walpole to Sir David Dalrymple, 21 Apr. 1765 (now in the Berg Collection, New York Public Library; W. S. Lewis, Horace Walpole's Correspondence, XV (2nd ed., 1967), 105-6, gives previous provenance including a number of London sales, the earliest traced being Sotheby's, 14-15 Apr. 1851, lot 153);
Nelson to Emma Hamilton, 4 Aug. 1801 (from the Pettigrew collection (see T. J. Pettigrew, Memoirs of.. Nelson, II (1849), 139); sold Sotheby's, 31 March-2 Apr. 1853, lot 203);
N. Poussin to Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1? Jan. 1641 (A. Donnadieu sale, Puttick & Simpson, 29 July 1851, lot 800; Puttick & Simpson, 16-18 March 1852, lot 684);
Thomas Coram to George Onslow, 12 May 1750 (later acquired by Alfred Morrison; see A. W. Thibaudeau (ed.), Catalogue, I (1883)).
The descriptions are mostly in one hand; a second hand adds a few entries and refers to the 1854 edition of the works of Thomas Moore.
Included are letters of:-
Horace Walpole to Sir David Dalrymple, 21 Apr. 1765 (now in the Berg Collection, New York Public Library; W. S. Lewis, Horace Walpole's Correspondence, XV (2nd ed., 1967), 105-6, gives previous provenance including a number of London sales, the earliest traced being Sotheby's, 14-15 Apr. 1851, lot 153);
Nelson to Emma Hamilton, 4 Aug. 1801 (from the Pettigrew collection (see T. J. Pettigrew, Memoirs of.. Nelson, II (1849), 139); sold Sotheby's, 31 March-2 Apr. 1853, lot 203);
N. Poussin to Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1? Jan. 1641 (A. Donnadieu sale, Puttick & Simpson, 29 July 1851, lot 800; Puttick & Simpson, 16-18 March 1852, lot 684);
Thomas Coram to George Onslow, 12 May 1750 (later acquired by Alfred Morrison; see A. W. Thibaudeau (ed.), Catalogue, I (1883)).
The descriptions are mostly in one hand; a second hand adds a few entries and refers to the 1854 edition of the works of Thomas Moore.
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/996