Letter : to Richard Bull, 1784 July 14.

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Title: Letter : to Richard Bull, 1784 July 14.
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
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
Description: 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].
Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: 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.
Extent: 1 20 cm, mounted to 27 cm item ([1] p.) ;
Language: English

Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717.
Subjects: Bull, Richard, 1725-1806
Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

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Citation: Horace Walpole, Letter to Richard Bull, 1784 July 14. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.