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From newsletter 16:
14. HUMPHRY, Ozias Autograph note to 'William'. Short handwritten note (4 lines) pasted on a larger sheet under a contemporary portrait of the painter. Signed 'O.H.'. 5,8 x 13,7 cm. In brown ink. A bit creased.
€ 75
* 'William./ you will be so good
as to be careful/ that the Sheets I have sent are arranged/ in the utmost
possible regularity and/ perspicacity [?] before they are carried to
be bound.' The portrait is a fine stipple engraving by Caroline Watson
(dated 1784) after a portrait by Romney. Ozias Humphry (1742-1810) was
a leading portrait miniature painter. His son William Upcott (1779-1845),
a librarian and large scale collector of autographs and letters, might
well have been the addressee of the note.
