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Edward Francis Burney, 1760–1848, British, Letter with Designs for Signets (?), undated
- Title:
Letter with Designs for Signets (?)
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 3 5/8 × 7 1/4 inches (9.2 × 18.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed beginning upper left: " I have no invention for ornamenting wafers, but I | think they should differ according to the matter contained | in the letter: a love letter might be thus a Mercantile | so_ a letter of civility a Lawyers letter | a letter of attourney Lettre de Cathis a | letter of Credit: and so forth. | The Mammouth seems to be..." Verso: "Hawkins"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Abel Cary Thomas, Yale BA 1905, transfer from the Yale University Library and the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.12.975
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- letters (correspondence) | signets | still life
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19665
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