Memoranda for additions to Lord Orford's Anecdotes of painting in England / H.E., 1822.

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Memoranda for additions to Lord Orford's Anecdotes of painting in England / H.E., 1822.

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Manuscript, in a single hand, listing Musgrave's additions and notes written from a copy of the second edition of Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting. The entries provide either further or contradictory biographical information about artists named in Walpole's work, and cite bibliographical references. Each entry is annotated with information about where the comment appears in Walpole's edition. The manuscript also includes a list of additional artists which Musgrave compiled after the title page, speculating that they would appear in Walpole's fourth volume.

1 v. (45 p.) ; 21 x 16 cm.

Yale University, Lewis Walpole Library

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