"Portrait of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham; half length to the left; with high lace band and ropes of pearls; in oval frame on pedestal decorated with peacock feathers; after Miereveldt."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved within circular tablet on pediment beneath portrait., Plate from: Larrey, Isaac de. Histoire d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande. Rotterdam : Reinier Leers, [1697-1713]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folded to 27.1 x 18 cm; window mounted to 31 x 24 cm., and Bound in opposite page 214 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
18 letters to Joseph Barrett, a goldsmith in Cheapside, 15 of which were written by his brother Richard Barrett between 1715 and 1720. The two earliest letters are from Tewkesbury, announcing riots in Worcester and Richard's intention of going to Scotland. The next letters, written from Paris between February and June of 1719, describe the sights of Paris and Versailles; clothing styles and customs of the French; High Mass at Notre Dame celebrated by the Cardinal de Noailles; and some political gossip, including the illness of the duchesse de Berry and the first reports of the marriage between the Young Pretender and Maria Clementina, Princess Sobieski, at which "the Jacobites here flatter themselves with...Hope." and Richard's letters from Leiden, written between October 1719 and April 1720, contain his impressions of the city; news of his health and financial situation; his desire to "take his degree" in medicine there; and his investment advice to his brother during the "prodigious rise in Stocks" on the London and Amsterdam exchanges in April 1720. The collection also contains two letters to Joseph Barrett from Anthony Bewly, describing Amsterdam and his business there, and one from Elizabeth Bostock, containing family news.
Subject (Geographic):
Leiden (Netherlands)--Description and travel and Paris (France)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Barrett, Richard,--fl. 1720
Subject (Topic):
Jacobite Rebellion, 1715, Jacobites, and South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
