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[Engravings of portraits]
Visual Materials
One bound set of engravings, untitled and unsigned, comprised of eight leaves of original engravings. The images are all portraits, some are single figures and others are multiple faces. The plates include a nude woman, and the engraved "label" reads "From the Venus de Medicis" (plate 1); three rows of male, female, and child heads (plate 2); a bearded man, side view (plate 3); a hooded man, gazing upward (plate 4); a woman dressed in a fur-trimmed cloak wearing a double strand of pearls looking down (plate 5); two images of the same side view portrait of a woman (plate 6); a double three-quarters view portrait of a young woman (plate 7); and a full-frontal double-portrait of a young man with curly hair (plate 8). Some of the plates are signed "Anib. Carracche."
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Photographs, engraved portraits, and ephemera
Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of letters addressed to William Sotheby, mostly from literary friends. Subject matter includes William Sotheby and his writings, contemporary writers and his friends, and European travel. The collection also contains five poems by Sotheby. Correspondents in the collection include: Joanna Baillie, Anna Barbauld, Sarah Bartley, Sir George Beaumont, Mary Berry, Lady Dacre, Catherine Bury, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Duchess of Devonshire, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Humphry Davy, Sir William Drummond, Peter Elmsley, Sir Henry Charles Englefield, Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Thomas Grosvenor, Arthur Henry Hallam, Henry Hallam, William Howley, Alexander von Humboldt, Washington Irving, George Lamb, Sir Thomas Lawrence, J.G. Lockhart, Mary Somerville, Robert Southey, Agnes Strickland, François Talma, John Taylor, Dawson Turner, John Wilson, and William Wordsworth.
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