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Manuscript Letter - Thomas Donne to Arthur Pycroft 6th July 1937
Estimate:
$300 - $500
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$140
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191 The Collection of John Elliot Lawford | Part 2: Online Auction (lot 95-432)
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Manuscript Letter
Thomas Donne to Arthur Pycroft 6th July 1937
An interesting handwritten two-page letter dated London 6 July 37, beginning ‘In ref to the eight original watercolour drawings of Māori subjects by Geo French Angas 1843...’, regarding the Auckland Museum agreement to buy the collection from Donne for 1000 pounds. Unfortunately the benefactor Mr Moss Davis died shortly after the letter confirming the offer was sent. “As the Hon. Elliot Davis is now in London … it occurred to that he might be willing to fulfil his father’s promise… I would like the pictures to go to N.Z preferably Auckland, as some of the Māori were of Taupo and the Barrier Island”. Donne’s collection of George French Angas paintings was sold at Sotheby’s in 1972
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
Thomas Donne to Arthur Pycroft 6th July 1937
An interesting handwritten two-page letter dated London 6 July 37, beginning ‘In ref to the eight original watercolour drawings of Māori subjects by Geo French Angas 1843...’, regarding the Auckland Museum agreement to buy the collection from Donne for 1000 pounds. Unfortunately the benefactor Mr Moss Davis died shortly after the letter confirming the offer was sent. “As the Hon. Elliot Davis is now in London … it occurred to that he might be willing to fulfil his father’s promise… I would like the pictures to go to N.Z preferably Auckland, as some of the Māori were of Taupo and the Barrier Island”. Donne’s collection of George French Angas paintings was sold at Sotheby’s in 1972
Provenance: Estate of John Lawford.
