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    P & D COLNAGHI, SCOTT & CO.: 13 & 14 PALL MALL EAST, LONDON

    Letter from Messrs. Colnaghi to Sir Charles Phipps sending photographs by Dovizielli of the frescoes of the Farnesina Palace for the Queen and the Prince Consort to see.

    5 Sep 1861

    Loose manuscript paper; mounted | 1 document (2 pages) (whole object) | RA VIC/ADDA10/85/194

    Messrs. Colnaghi write that they are sending [to Balmoral] a box containing photographs of the frescoes at the Farnesina Palace taken by Dovizielli of Rome. They will be publishing the pictures in England. They hope that the Queen and the Prince Consort will look at them. A note in another hand on the letter reads 'What is the price; good prints must be promised.'

    • Creator(s)

      P & D Colnaghi, Scott & Co.: 13 & 14 Pall Mall East, London (writer)

      Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps (1801-66) (addressee)

    • 1 document (2 pages) (whole object)

    • Object type(s)
        • printed & manuscript material
          • documents
            • correspondence
      Language(s)
      English
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