'A Copie of a Letter dated March 2nd n.s. 1709/10 from Florence. By Mr John Talman to the Dean of Christ Church [Henry Aldrich], relating to the Italian drawings. Communicated by James West Esq. 20th Oct. 1743' Fols. 135v-138v.
Reference code
SAL/10/09/45
Title
'A Copie of a Letter dated March 2nd n.s. 1709/10 from Florence. By Mr John Talman to the Dean of Christ Church [Henry Aldrich], relating to the Italian drawings. Communicated by James West Esq. 20th Oct. 1743' Fols. 135v-138v.
Date
2 March 1710
20 October 1743
20 October 1743
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Read 20 October 1743: Minute Book IV, fol. 170 (SAL/02/004/177). Also transcribed in ‘Register of Antiquitys’, pp.242-8 (SAL/10/10/042). Printed in Archaeologia, 1 (1770), 130-5.
Concerns sixteen volumes of Italian drawings from the collection of Monsignor [Giovanni Matteo] Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo, about to be sold by his nephew.
Concerns sixteen volumes of Italian drawings from the collection of Monsignor [Giovanni Matteo] Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo, about to be sold by his nephew.
Creator
Talman, John (1677-1726), collector and antiquary
West, James (1703-1772), barrister and antiquary
West, James (1703-1772), barrister and antiquary