Letter from Thomas Gainsborough to Lord Hardwicke, : Thomas Gainsborough

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Letter from Thomas Gainsborough to Lord Hardwicke, c1760-1770. Letter from Gainsborough to Lord Hardwicke expressing unwillingness to paint 'real views from Nature', never having seen in England any place that afforded a good enough subject. From the fifth series of Facsimiles of royal, historical, literary and other autographs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Series I-V, (London, 1899).

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