Note : to Richard Bull, ca. 1789 September

Description

Title: Note : to Richard Bull, ca. 1789 September
Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Abstract: Signed note in Horace Walpole's hand to his friend Richard Bull, in which Walpole mentions the depiction of his Marc Anthony medal in the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals. Walpole also writes that he is sending along to Bull a copy of the plate in question
Description: In English.
Dated approximately by the reference to the second edition of Pinkerton's An essay on medals, 1789. See: Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence.
Mounted on page 110 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
Mounted beside the top half of the plate mentioned in the note, probably the impression sent by Walpole to Bull.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
Extent: 1 8 cm item ([1] p.) ;
Language: English

Genre: Correspondence
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Name): Bull, Richard, 1725-1806.
Subjects: Bull, Richard, 1725-1806
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Horace Walpole, Note to Richard Bull, ca. 1789 September. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.