Garrick, David. Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to Revd. Richard Kaye, Kirkby, Nottinghamshire

Little & Kahrl. Letters of David Garrick: 382
Folger bibliographic ID: 232730
Folger call number: Y.c.1802
Folger holdings ID: 281188
Accession Number: 266499

Thanks Kaye for a Christmas gift and provides an update on a borrowed painting: "Yr. Picture has not yet been out of my house, for the Copyer is so busy, he can't begin till [th]e latter End of next Week..."

General notes

With integral address leaf The borrowed painting was presumably Pompeo Batoni's portrait of Garrick (now at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), which Garrick commissioned in Italy as a gift for Kaye, in exchange for an antique gem that Kaye had found at the Baths of Caracalla. At least two copies of the portrait are known Acquired from Michael Silverman Literary & Historical Manuscripts in 2010

Extended title: Autograph letter signed from David Garrick to Revd. Richard Kaye, Kirkby, Nottinghamshire 1766 January 2

Garrick, David, 1717-1779 Kaye, Richard, Sir, 1736-1809 Batoni, Pompeo, 1708-1787

correspondent: Garrick, David, 1717-1779
subject: Garrick, David, 1717-1779
subject: Kaye, Richard, Sir, 1736-1809
subject: Batoni, Pompeo, 1708-1787
correspondent: Kaye, Richard, Sir, 1736-1809