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Receipt for purchase of Burney's General History of Music with portrait of Charles Burney
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CA RBD MS Burney-0070
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[not before 1789] (Creation)
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1 board : portrait ; 46 cm
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Matted portrait of Charles Burney with a signed receipt for purchase of Burney's General History of Music (4 volumes, London: 1776-1789). Typescript receipt contains the following manuscript annotations by Burney: numbered: no. 156, dated: March 27, 1789, and is addressed to a Miss Cecilia, perhaps a subscriber. The portrait is engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi after an image by Joshua Reynolds, and was published in 1784. Full dimensions are: total: 46 x 32 cm; portrait: 20 x 17 cm; and receipt: 6 x 16 cm.
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MSG 1320