Sales catalogue 494: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/51
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 494: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘Dunsany (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Baron)—continued. about doing unostentatious little works of rescue. . . I have tried defending sand castles with huge rampants of sand, that is exciting too and they hold out a long time against the sea. A very good game, if one can declare war, is to shell rival, neighbouring fortifications with wet sand. ca ‘T see that Trench is going to make a curtain-raiser of my 3. Act play, its ‘to be a short one-act one, I suppose with 3 scenes. But I’ve done another and much better, a tragedy in 38 actos a which I hope might just make an actable play. Did I tell you that King Argimenes was acted in Dublin and with ail its faults, was a success. : a enclose last week's ‘ episode ’; the picture represents a scuffle between two strange beasts by a lake with a city in a valley in the background.’’ Ete. 1445 DUPONT (GAINSBOROUGH, 1754-1797). Portrait painter and mezzotint engraver. Nephew of Thomas Gainsborough. AUTOGRAPH LETTE ReSIGNED: [QO HIS Sls TER MRS ws Ow. CaN DAmALO een OtALLOnmoLrce two A Lim) Ulva 5e £5 5s Mentioning his portraits of George HI and Queen Charlotte and the Princess of Wales. i . I have just received an anil from the King to get two large por- traits of himself and the Queen finished and put up in Windsor Palace by the twelfth of next month. . . If this is not a busy time with you and you should have no objection to letting my niece Sally come to stay a week or two with me I shall be very happy to see her, and amongst other fine things I shall show her the Princess of Wales’s wedding dress which I have in my possession as I am painting a full length portrait of her for the King.’’ Ete. 1440 EDWARD IV (1442-1483). King of England. DOCUMENT OF THIS REIGN. I page, narrow oblong 4to (vellum). 2nd September, 1479. With seal attached. £3 3s A grant of land in Luton fields between Wm. Grenefield and Thos. Perrott. 1447 EDWARD VI (1537-1553). King of England. DOCUMENT OF THIS REIGN. I page, narrow oblong 4to (vellum).. 1st March, 1549. With seal attached. £3 3s A deed between Sir John Wentworth and Sir William Waldegrave.
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