John Lely to Hans Sloane – August 5, 1703
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Date: August 5, 1703 Author: John Lely Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039 Folio: ff. 169-170
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Material Culture, Trade or Commodities
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Antiquities, Busts, Statuary
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August 5, 1703
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Kew
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Mr Gibbins
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Lely believes that the person to whom Sloane showed the bust knows nothing of statuary, arguing that Mr Gibbins would give a very different value. He claims the bust would be fit for any prince’s gallery if it had not lost its nose. John Lely (b. 1674) was the son of Sir Peter Lely, the portrait painter and art collector, and his common-law wife Ursula. John married the daughter of Sir John Knatchbull (Diana Dethloff, ‘Lely, Sir Peter (1618–1680)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16419, accessed 28 May 2015]).
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