Letter : to Richard Bull, 1784 July 14.
- Creator:
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item ([1] p.) ; 20 cm, mounted to 27 cm
- Notes:
- Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
In English.
Formerly page 1 of an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]. - Abstract:
- Signed letter in Horace Walpole's hand thanking Richard Bull for lending him books which he now returns. Walpole comments favorably on drawings by Maria Sibylla Merian that were among the items lent.
- Topics:
- Bull, Richard,--1725-1806.
Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Merian, Maria Sibylla,--1647-1717. - Language:
- English
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- [Scrapbook of drawings].
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B935 805 folder 2 Box 1
- Orbis Record:
- 13078566
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr25611
- Citation:
- Horace Walpole, Letter to Richard Bull. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16193636
- PID:
- digcoll:4047902
