[Rarebooks] FS: 1820 Letter for an Art Conversationi Club

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Handwritten Letter Regarding an Art Talk Club
October 21, 1820.

DISCUSSION: A letter from Charles Pye of Euston place to R. Balmano
(Robert Balmanno), announcing the formation of an "Artists'
conversationi", which will mix working artists with art amateurs for "free
intercourse" on artistic subjects. The writer has about 30 "of the most
respectable names" already signed up and is looking to add about twenty
more. The first meeting would take place in December, "continued every
other Monday till the end of February at the Grey's Inn coffee house".

Charles Pye, of Euston Place, was awarded the Silver Isis Medal on
November 17, 1815, by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts,
Manufactures and Commerce, for the development of a method of preparing
charcoal to serve as black chalk for drawing.

Robert Balmanno, FSA, an art enthusiast, print collector, lawyer, editor
of the London Literary Gazette, and eventually the founder of the New York
Shakespeare Society, is listed by the British Museum as having lived at 23
Morningston Place, London around 1820, which is where this letter found
him.

DESCRIPTION: Folded sheet, 7.25"x9", the letter written on one side, the
second leaf forming a self-mailer with the address.

CONDITION NOTES: Light soil, evidently mounted in a scrapbook at some
point, with residue and loss where it was removed (not affecting any of
the content).

PRICE: $75 -

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